Using Regular Expresions to change .htm to .php in files

[J. Cliff Dyer]

I'd actually skip checking where the links are coming from, and just 
pretend any link could be .htm or .html.

Check for both cases, either using a regex  or just fix the .html cases 
first.  So do 2 passes.

Pass 1: Data.replace('.html', '.php')
Pass 2: Data.replace('.htm','.php')

I make no claims about what the surrounding code should look like.  
You've gotten a number of responses on that already.

Cheers,
Cliff

Sébastien N wrote:
> It's a fact, but still I went on with the solution that overwrites all
> the .htm because it's a really big site and about 70-80% of the links
> are internal so we'll save time this way.
>
> There's probably a way to analyse if a link is internal or external,
> but I needed something fast. But still, I would be interested about
> knowing how to do such a thing for the future.
>
> On 8/24/07, J. Cliff Dyer <jcd at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>   
>>  Tim Williams wrote:
>>  On 23/08/07, sebzzz at gmail.com <sebzzz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I have a bunch of files that have changed from standard htm files to
>> php files but all the links inside the site are now broken because
>> they point to the .htm files while they are now .php files.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea about how to do a simple script that changes
>> each .htm in a given file to a .php
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance
>>
>>
>>  Something like:
>>
>> Infile = open(f_name,'r+')
>> Data = Infile.read()
>> InFile.write(Data.replace('.htm','.php'))
>> Infile.close()
>>
>> :)
>>
>>  Yeah, but you'd better make darn sure that *all* links point to .htm files
>> (including external links), because you could very easily end up pointing to
>> http://some.othersite.com/index.phpl
>>
>>  And that's just no good.
>>
>>
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