Question

I have a Hyperlink field (aka column) in SharePoint 2010.

Say it’s called SalesReportUrl. The url looks like:

http://portal.cab.com/SalessiteCollection/October2012Library/Forms/customview.aspx

The hyperlink field stores values in two fields (the link and description).

What would be the RegEx if I want to get the October2012Library out of the Url?

I tried this but it’s definitely not working:

@"<a[\s]+[^>]*?href[\s]?=[\s\"\']+(.*?)[\"\']+.*?>([^<]+|.*?)?<\/a>";

I also tried:

^(.*?/)?Forms/$ 

but no luck.

I think sharepoint stores hyperlink like this:

http://portal.cab.com/SalessiteCollection/October2012Library/Forms/customview.aspx, some description

Looks like this has a solution. but what’s the syntax substring get the list or library name ?https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/40712/get-list-title-in-sharepoint-designer-workflow

Answer 1

http://[^/]+/[^/]+/([^/]+)/

match’s group[1] is the value you need. it gets the 3rd part (divided by /) in the url. if you need make sure it is followed by other parts, i.e. forms, add it at the end.