Strange regular expression difference when using an URL
Hello all,
I took some time and finally was able to come up with a regular expression that express the condition of a parameter in a URL. Baiscally, I want to remove the parameter and everything that belongs to this parameter in the URL so I can construct another link free from this parameter.
I want it to match either a number(todeletetable=10) or a list of numbers seperated with a comma (todeletetable=10,11,12,13,) in the URL
I used the following pattern :
Pattern.compile("&todeletetable=(\\d+,)+&|&todeletetable=\\d+&");
When testing this locally, it works very well.
String toMatch ="method=allocate&todeletetable=153622,153623,153579,&sortDirection=asc"
matcher.replaceAll("&") -> returns"method=allocate&sortDirection=asc"
However, when playing with HTML links, the comma is encoded into %2C. Therefore, I added this expression to the pattern :
Pattern.compile("&todeletetable=(\\d+,)+&|&todeletetable=(\\d+%2C)+&|&todeletetable=\\d+&");
String toMatch ="method=allocate&todeletetable=153622%2C153623%2C153579%2C&sortDirection=asc"
matcher.replaceAll("&") ->returns"method=allocate&sortDirection=asc"
locally but over the web, I get"method=allocate&%2C153623%2C153579%2C&sortDirection=asc"
It seems that the %2C is not detected in the regular expression in the case of an URL. I don't know what to do to avoid this.
Please help me if you can with any hint or solution.
Thank you
Raphas
