I'm working on a board where one of the main problems is people posting long URLs which stretch out the post area.

What we want is something that will stop a URL over, say, fifty chars being displayed in full, but replace it with something which is still informative.

For long directory structures, I've got as far as: 

(http:\/\/[^\/]+).*

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so I can replace
http://somewhere/with/a/deep/structure/
with just
http://somewhere/(...)

What people are asking for is this, though -- replacing (optionally) any long dir structures, preserving the document name on the end, but stripping any long query string info from the end as well, so that

http://somewhere/with/a/deep/structure/virus.exe
would be reduced to
http://somewhere/(...)/virus.exe
and
http://some-shop.com/dir1/dir2/buystuff.cgi?x=1&y=2&z=3
would be reduced to
http://some-shop.com/(...)/buystuff.cgi
as well.

Any pointers gratefully received.
-- 

($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;

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In reply to Regex to Truncate URLs Nicely by Cody Pendant

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