Hello Jean-Christophe,

Thank you for your assistance. I appreciate it.

Using that grep pattern found only ONE relative URL in almost 6,000 HTML docs.

Considering how much I have used BBEdit’s multi-file find and replace feature 
to make global changes to my primary virtual host over the past few weeks in 
order to bring it up to specs for AMP, I do find that rather suspect.

In other words, I would think that there would still be at least a few more 
hidden relative URLs floating around on the site, and not just one.

On the other hand, if there really was only one, then I must have done a better 
job than I thought. :)

While I can just copy and paste that grep pattern and use it — which I did in 
fact do — I really learn nothing from the experience.

Having said that, can you please take a few more minutes of your time to 
explain to me what each part of that grep pattern does?

I understand some of it, but not all of it put together.

For example, I know that ^ means the beginning of a line, that $ means the end 
of a line, and * is like a wild card, right?

But put all together with the two brackets and the forward slash, my 
understanding gets lost.

Thank you, my friend.

Kind regards,

Bill Kochman


> On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Bill,

> There is not need to check for the presence of tabs since what you want 
> concerns only the URL.
> 
> Since the relative URLs don't (seem to) include a /, I'd use that pattern to 
> look for them:
> 
> <a href="([^/]*)$
> 
> And I'd replace with:
> 
> <a href="https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/\1
> 
> Jean-Christophe 


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