powershell code to find and replace string

Question

I have a string with HTML content.

I want to find few characters and replace with some other string.

For eg:

$Content = "This is my string. For more information, goto http://www.example.com/searchpage.htm. You will get the required information here. You can also get information at http://www.example.com/searchpage1.htm. Do not replace sample.htm.  Do not replace sample1.htm."

Wherever I find the text example.com, I need to replace with example1.com and the same URL contains .htm which should be made .html

If the URL does not contain example.com, I dont want to replace .htm Below is some part of code, which I could achieve to replace example.com But I am unable to replace .htm part in the same URL.

I dont want to replace .htm all over the main content. I just want to replace .htm wherever I replace example.com

$find = "http://www.example.com/"

$newContent = "http://www.example1.com/"

$replacedContent =  $Content -replace $strFind,$strReplace

I want to know how to replace a multiple parts of text in a long string.

Please suggest!

-replace '\bexample\.com\b','example1.com'

Mathias R. Jessen
– Mathias R. Jessen

2017-01-30 12:26:05 +00:00
Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 12:26 — Mathias R. Jessen
– Mathias R. Jessen, Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 12:26

Martin Brandl · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-30 12:27:45Z

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Probably not the safest way (in case the URL doesn't contain .htm) but could do it for you:

$Content -replace 'http://www\.example\.com(.+?)\.html?', 'http://www.example1.com$1.html'

answered Jan 30, 2017 at 12:27

Martin Brandl

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user2598808 Over a year ago

Thank You, but the URL contains .htm. I need to modify the URL which contains example as well as htm to example1 and .htm

Martin Brandl Over a year ago

you mean to .html. my snippet does exactly that - just try it.

user2598808 Over a year ago

Unfortunately, this is not working for me. I am not sure where I am going wrong. Please guide me

user2598808 Over a year ago

Suppose the orginal string contains "www.example.com/search-page/searchpage.htm" I need to change it to "www.example1.com/search-content/searchpage.html"

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