Anybody out there good with Regular Expressions / REGEX?

AdvToorer

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My experience with REGEX is in Python, PERL, and grep (bash). In Python and PERL use I typically create a regex to perform the match and "capture" a specific portion of the string (like "300" in your example), then create the replacement string using the captured string concatenated with whatever new string.
Based on your example, I would capture the topic value using regex:
/topic=(\d+)\.
Then create new string using "http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?threads/" + $capturestring + "/"
How you perform the concatenation will be dependent on the forum software.

I like regex101.com for testing regular expressions as it gives a great explanation how it's decoding the string and applying the regex match. Click here for an example I created.
 
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Venture

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Ah, need the regex to rewrite older URL (such as Google search results) to the new forum URL?
Yes, but I need to do it using Nginx rewrite, which is proving problematic. I can't seem to get Nginx to process the rewrites, and that is what is holding things up. Once I get at least a simple rewrite working I can focus on the specific ones I need for posts, topics, users, and boards.
 
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