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I have a txt with line like these ones:

155The Last Goodnight - Stay Beautiful by CapitolMusic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5c2iTcSlbE
156Sara Evans - A Real Fine Place To Start by saraevansVEVO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdCBkXB91I
157Simple Minds - See The Lights by SimpleMindsVEVO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmKTMAak710

I want to remove everything before "http://..." in order to reach this result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5c2iTcSlbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdCBkXB91I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmKTMAak710

Can you help me?

asked Feb 15, 2013 at 11:05
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.*(?=http://)

matches everything before the last http:// in a line.

answered Feb 15, 2013 at 11:07
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@user128806: Yes, just use .*? instead of .*.
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In Java:

justHttp = justHttp.replaceFirst(".*(?=http://)", "");

For any other use just replace http:// with yourString.

answered Oct 22, 2015 at 15:51

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