Regex to remove everything that comes after &oq=, only IF domain is google.com when found in clipboard? Topic is solved

[boiler]

I think this should take care of it. If the clipboard doesn't include the strings google.com or fbcdn.net, it should not touch it.

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CleanGoogleLink() {
	if !(InStr(Clipboard, "google.com") || InStr(Clipboard, "fbcdn.net"))
		return
	OnClipboardChange("CleanGoogleLink", 0)
	Clipboard := RegExReplace(Clipboard, "google.com.*\K&oq=.*")
	Clipboard := RegExReplace(Clipboard, "(?<=search\?q=)[a-z\+]+", "%s")
	Clipboard := StrReplace(Clipboard, "&source=lnt")
	Clipboard := RegExReplace(Clipboard, "fbcdn.net.*\K&bytestart=.*")
	OnClipboardChange("CleanGoogleLink", 1)
}

[milkygirl90]

this does resolve the issue, but is it possible to

1. insert wildcards as such?

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if !(InStr(Clipboard, "*.com/*") || (InStr(Clipboard, "*.net/*")

2. Alternatively, can I specify only "text within clipboard" to be processed by this script?

[boiler]

You don’t need wildcards because that’s how InStr() would behave already. Think about it: It’s checking if those things are in the string, no matter what’s around them. So it can just be like this:

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if !(InStr(Clipboard, ".com/") || (InStr(Clipboard, ".net/"))

(you left off the last ), btw)


There is a way for it to act only if the contents of the clipboard is text, but when copying files, they are also seen as text in the clipboard, so you would have the same problem as before when copying files.

[milkygirl90]

now this relates to my earlier question about covering all sorts of domains within 4 characters. How do I code the InStr part that also covers these urls?

[boiler]

You can't use InStr for that, you would use RegExMatch:

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if !RegExMatch(Clipboard, "\.[a-z]{2,4}")

[milkygirl90]

didn't know I could use regexmatch along with the instr command too. works great, thanks!

[milkygirl90]

I think this should take care of it. If the clipboard doesn't include the strings google.com or fbcdn.net, it should not touch it.

ah.. the problem is coming back now again, but this time it's intermittent. Comes back once every 30mins, and I have to reload the script in order for it not to interrupt my cut/copy/pasting of files. any idea why?

[boiler]

I believe I see why, but I'd be surprised if it's really intermittent. It would seem that any file with an extension would fit that criteria because the end of a URL such as .com and the extension of a file like .ahk would both be seen as the same by that RegEx pattern. Adding a slash should differentiate between the two:

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if !RegExMatch(Clipboard, "\.[a-z]{2,4}/")

[milkygirl90]

I see, then that wouldn't cover top-level domains without a forward slash such as www.abc.com

let me think if there's a better way to do this.. thanks!

[boiler]

Why do you need it to cover cases where it’s not followed by a forward slash? Those cases have nothing to be cleaned, which is the purpose of the function, so returning without doing anything would be fine.

[milkygirl90]

oh yes you're right.. I confused myself with another script that I was doing. Thanks a lot!

on the same note, is it possible to make the same script work without checking clipboard at all?

E.g. when I click on any link that matches the above patterns, "abc.com/&oq=abc" it will visit abc.com instead. This doesn't involve clipboard, so I was thinking how the script will look like instead.

[boiler]

If there is a way, I don’t know how to do it. It might be able to be done by injecting code into the default browser’s process. That’s beyond the scope of writing AHK scripts, though.

[milkygirl90]

I see. will explore further on my own then.. Thank you!