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Manipulate a string in groovy script

Robert_d_Hoedt — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:42:02 GMT

Hi,

For my Integration Suite scenario i must manipulate a string.

My input is something like: "URL.something.com/string1/string2".

The URL.something might change over time (and can be longer or shorter) and the string1/string2 can also change

The only part i can be sure of is ".com/"

What i need is a Groovy script that will take URL.something.com and replace string1/string2 with something like /mystring/ourstring.

Because of the flexible length of URL.something it is not possible to replace after a fixed length. And i can also not replace on the basis of string1/string2 because that can also change.

So it needs to be some instruction like: remove everything that comes after ".com/" and then add /mystring/ourstring.

Hopefully someone can help me out.

Robert

Re: Manipulate a string in groovy script

Jwan_24 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:55:23 GMT

Do you mean something like this?

def inputUrl = "URL.something.com/string1/string2"
def pattern = /(\.com\/)(.+)/

def matcher = (inputUrl =~ pattern)
     if (matcher.find()) {
        def modifiedUrl = matcher.group(1) + "mystring/ourstring"
        println modifiedUrl
     } else {
            println "Pattern not found in the URL"
       }

Re: Manipulate a string in groovy script

Robert_d_Hoedt — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:59:33 GMT

Hi Jwan,

Thx for your answer. I ran the code in www.jdoodle.com/execute-groovy-online/

The output was ".com/mystring/ourstring"

But this is not the desired outcome unfortunately.

The outcome should be "URL.something.com/mystring/ourstring"

regards

Robert

Re: Manipulate a string in groovy script

Robert_d_Hoedt — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:23:34 GMT

Hi Jwan,

I think i found something that might work; its called ordinalIndex

serverurl = "https://url.something.com/mystring1/mystring2"

index = ordinalIndexOf(serverurl,'/',3)

println(serverurl.substring(0,index)+""/mystring/ourstring"");

static int ordinalIndexOf(String str, String substr, int n) {

int pos = str.indexOf(substr);

while (--n > 0 && pos != -1)

pos = str.indexOf(substr, pos + 1);

return pos;

}

Re: Manipulate a string in groovy script

Robert_d_Hoedt — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:34:04 GMT

Hi all,

So i found something that will work independent of the length of the string

(so it will work for "https://shorturl.com/stringA" and for https://veryverylongurl.com/string A)

First action is to determine what the index of the 3rd "/" is.

Second action is take substring from 0 to index

Third action is to add customstring as a path.

String ServerURL;

static int ordinalIndexOf(String str, String substr, int n) {

int pos = str.indexOf(substr);

while (--n > 0 && pos != -1)

pos = str.indexOf(substr, pos + 1);

return pos;

}

index = ordinalIndexOf(ServerURL,'/',3);

ServerURL = (ServerURL.substring(0,index)+"/addcustomstringasapath");

Robert