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Extract URL's from string

craigja
8 - Asteroid

Hi I have a long string that has URL's in it, I want to use the regular expression tool to extract the URL's into separate columns - so Im trying to cobble together an expression that looks for strings starting with "http and ending with ", where the http can be either lower or upper class - Man I hate regular expressions!

 

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craigja
8 - Asteroid

2018.3.5.52487

yalmar_m
11 - Bolide

Try this one!

craigja
8 - Asteroid

Hi not really what I need - I want to get 1 extra column, with the 2 URL's separated by a comma.  Some of the data has up to 9 URL's in that one section

yalmar_m
11 - Bolide

If you want to Concat the URL's, following workflow might be a solution.

afv2688
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

you can do a regex replace with this formula -> href="(.+)" .+ href="(.+)" .+  then add them fith a formula tool

[regex_replace1] + " ," + [regex_replace2]

 

as long as there are more https keep adding more

craigja
8 - Asteroid

Will give the above a try in a minute but just now I have a very dirty solution!

 

"(.*?)" in the regex tool, then run a regex_replace to remove "_Blank" and replace with nothing, then another regex_replace to remove " and replace them with nothing

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