import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final String regex = "\\b(https?://\\S*?/documents/)en(/\\S*)\\.pdf\\b";
final String string = "The problem is, if the page contains a PDF linked to another page (not my own website), example https://othersite.example.com/whatever.pdf, it becomes https://othersite.example.com/whatever_SPANISH.pdf which isn't valid on other people's sites. I want to ignore offsite links and only change URLs on my site.\n\n"
+ "So what I would like to do is look for the string: https://example.com/documents/en/whateverfilename.pdf and pull that file name out and change it to https://example.com/documents/es/whateverfilename_SPANISH.pdf (Switching the en to es and also appending the _SPANISH to the end of the PDF filename.\n\n";
final String subst = "$1es$2_SPANISH.pdf";
final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string);
// The substituted value will be contained in the result variable
final String result = matcher.replaceAll(subst);
System.out.println("Substitution result: " + result);
}
}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Java, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html