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murvinlai
murvinlai

Reputation: 50375

Struggle with a Regex to change subdomain, and subsubdomain

I got this from antoher post: 

host = ".mylocal.com";
var reg = new RegExp('^https?://([^.]*' + host + ')');
console.log(reg.test('http://www.mylocal.com/'));

but it can only match with www.mylocal.com , whatever.mylocal.com but not two levels down, like dev.www.mylocal.com

i tried writing something else but couldn't get it check the sub -sub . or even 3, 4 levels down. :( how should i write it?

so, what I would like to achieve is:

.local.com
will match:
www.local.com
dev.www.local.com
abc.dev.abc.local.com

and 
www.local.com
will only match 
www.local.com
NOT dev.www.local.com

:) that's more clear

Upvotes: 0

Views: 546

Answers (2)

Tom Zych
Tom Zych

Reputation: 13586

The basic problem is that you want to match all kinds of prefixes, followed by host, if host begins with .; but you want to match host alone if not. This could be done with lookahead assertions, but since you're constructing the regex anyway, it's much simpler to just construct it differently depending on the case. I don't know Javascript, so I'll use pseudocode.

For the first case, we want to match zero or more (non-capturing) groups of non-periods followed by one period, then at least one non-period, all before host. For the second case, we just want to match host.

if host starts with '.':
    var reg = new RegExp('^https?://((?:[^.]+\.)*[^.]+' + host + ')');
else:
    var reg = new RegExp('^https?://(' + host + ')');

Upvotes: 1

jcomeau_ictx
jcomeau_ictx

Reputation: 38482

not sure what you're trying to do. this regex will match any number of levels:

r = new RegExp("^https?://([^.]+[.])*([^.])+$");

Upvotes: 0

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