Please help - string manipulation (easy)

http://www.site.com/index.html
https://www.site.com
www.site.com/
ftp://www.site.com

how can you msgbox the www.site.com and add a slash at the end if a slash doesnt exist (if its just a domain), and msgbox the whole string (without the http://) if its not just a domain? so for each one, it would msgbox www.site.com/, excpet for the first one, where it would msgbox www.site.com/index.html

more examples:

Code:

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string                                                  msgbox
www.site.com                                    www.site.com/
https://www.site.com/index.html      www.site.com/index.html
http://www.site.com/s.php?g=5        www.site.com/s.php?g=5
http://www.site.com/sub/sub.html    www.site.com/sub/sub.html

---

anyone know?

maybe something like this

VB Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("http://www.site.com/index.html")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("https://www.site.com")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("www.site.com/")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("ftp://www.site.com")
End Sub
 
Private Function ParsedAddress(sWebAddr As String) As String
    Dim iPos As Integer
    iPos = InStr(sWebAddr, "://")
    If iPos <> 0 Then
        sWebAddr = Mid(sWebAddr, iPos + 3, Len(sWebAddr))
    End If
    
    iPos = InStr(sWebAddr, ".htm")
    If iPos = 0 Then
        If Right(sWebAddr, 1) <> "/" Then sWebAddr = sWebAddr & "/"
    End If
    ParsedAddress = sWebAddr
End Function

This assumes you have VB6, a textbox with the multiline property set to true, and a command button named command1. It doesn't take into account that there is .html at the end because there are so many extensions, it would take a lot of coding to check every type of extension.

VB Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
yeah = Split(Text1.Text, vbCrLf)
For i = 0 To UBound(yeah) - 1
    j = InStr(1, yeah(i), "//")
    If j > 0 Then
        yeah(i) = Mid(yeah(i), j + 2)
    End If
    If Right(yeah(i), 1) <> "/" Then
        yeah(i) = yeah(i) & "/"
    End If
    MsgBox yeah(i)
Next
End Sub

peet - almost.. it still adds a / to the end of sites that are not simply domains (like http://www.site.com/p.php?me=*** returns www.site.com/p.php?me=***/)

any idea how to fix it?

midgets i couldnt get urs too work

yes, and as MidgetsBro pointed out, there will be loads of other stuff u have to take into consideration as u go along.. :)

add "=" to the list :

VB Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("http://www.site.com/index.html")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("https://www.site.com")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("www.site.com/")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("ftp://www.site.com")
    MsgBox ParsedAddress("http://www.site.com/p.php?me=***")
End Sub
 
Private Function ParsedAddress(sWebAddr As String) As String
    Dim iPos As Integer
    iPos = InStr(sWebAddr, "://")
    If iPos <> 0 Then
        sWebAddr = Mid(sWebAddr, iPos + 3, Len(sWebAddr))
    End If
    
    If InStr(sWebAddr, ".htm") = 0 And InStr(sWebAddr, "?") = 0 Then
        If Right(sWebAddr, 1) <> "/" Then sWebAddr = sWebAddr & "/"
    End If
    
    ParsedAddress = sWebAddr
End Function

argh this is so frsutrating.. why is it so hard to get winsock to get a webpage? so much parsing that has to be done just to get the right string to be retrieved..

is there a function or anything that will change a webpage string into something that can be used with winsock to retrieve?

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winsock does accept http:// and doesnt matter if it ends with / or not.

Hi
Assuming that u still want to parse the strings....

VB Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Debug.Print NewString("www.site.com")
    Debug.Print NewString("https://www.site.com/index.html")
    Debug.Print NewString("http://www.site.com/s.php?g=5")
    Debug.Print NewString("http://www.site.com/sub/sub.html")
End Sub
 
Private Function NewString(PassString As String) As String
    Dim Posn As Integer
    NewString = PassString
    Posn = InStr(1, NewString, "//") 'Find first occurrence of //
    If Posn > 0 Then 'If it is found
        'You could add more checking for length of string here
        NewString = Mid$(NewString, Posn + 2) 'trim off http etc
    Else
        Posn = 1 'Not found
    End If
    Posn = InStr(1, NewString, "/") 'Find first occurrence of /
    If Posn = 0 Then NewString = NewString & "/" 'If not found, add it
End Function

thanks beachbum! youre a genius :)

Consider urself lucky, n00b... it's very rare that BB gets out of his drag attire to present himself to the General forum, let alone help.

You should be honored. :)