Solved How can I get part of the URL

[RogerW]

I have a long url and I only need the part from the beginning to the ?

Sample URL: --

(https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/81296:7613?_phsrc=LgW7255&_phstart=successSource&gsln=rakes&ml_rpos=2&queryId=46e16cbbab2dbdef493d263f850766a6)

I have this regex (?<=http)(.*)(?=?) which works but I need to include the http

This solved it ^(.*)(?=?)
Thanks
Roger

[tiffle]

This would work too (http.+?\?)

[ComplexPoint]

@RogerW

This solved it ^(.*)(?=?)

Tho why tinker with regular expressions,
when Keyboard Maestro does this for you

See the Filter with URL ... options of the Filter action

Parts of URL extracted by .kmmacros (5.0 KB)

[RogerW]

I guess I don't understand filter enough to make it work. And I am not very efficient with regex but eventually I can make it work.

[ComplexPoint]

@RogerW

I don't understand filter enough

Forgive me – I should have left the actions expanded in the image:

URL without query.kmmacros (3.6 KB)

[ComplexPoint]

Tho a variable array index [1]? may be simpler:

manual:Variable Arrays [Keyboard Maestro Wiki]

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URL without query II (array variable).kmmacros (2.7 KB)

[Nige_S]

@RogerW

This solved it ^(.*)(?=?)

I suspect the Forum has stripped a \ character in there -- it should be a "positive lookahead": ^(.*)(?=\?)

If you prefer a regex over Filters, this is perhaps easier to interpret:

^[^?]*

"From the start of the string (^), match 'not a ?' ([^?]) as many times as possible (*)."