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replacing hypertext links with simple text 'URL'

I had this question after viewing How to remove unicode characters from csv file?.

In the context of best accepted solution i.e for the same dataset, how to replace the https i.e (hypertext) links with 'URL' in the whole document?

gelonida

You want to replace for example "https://host.name/path/?getvar=3" with "URL host.name/path/?getvar=3" ??

Yogesh Bansal

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Hi,

No, I want to replace all hypertext links i..e http://t.co/fej2v3OUBR by 'any word'. I want to clean up my document by replacing all https with simple text let's say 'any word'

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Yogesh Bansal

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Hi,

There is an error coming which I have attached below.
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Yogesh Bansal

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Hi,

The link http://www.google.com/w=sdfsdfsdfsdf is replaced by <Link>w=sdfsdfsdfsdf

I want the complete url to be replaced by <Link>
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url's are surrounded with <a href= and end with a />

<a href=www.abc.com>ABC </a>

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Yogesh Bansal

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Hi,

The code works. It removes url with get params but I am getting empty output.txt.
I was wondering if it is possible to make changes in the original file instead of generating new file with all params removed.

Many Thanks.

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