Replacing substrings like ./ and ../

[Mahoney Futhark]

I'm building a simple spider, but I am stuck right now as I can't format URL's the right way. Some websites uses relative addressing in their links like

href="./i_am_going_to_mess_with_your_spider.htm"

or

href="../i_am_going_to_mess_with_your_spider_too.htm"

I have translated these into

href="http://www.i-feel-a-bit-creutzfeldt-jacob-ish.com/./i_am_going_to_mess_with_your_spider.htm"

So I need to remove substrings like ./ and ../, probably also //.

The problem is I can't. I've tried using string.replaceAll("./", ""),
but that removes other things too as the . is treated as meaning "one char of any kind".

so the previous URL translated would become:

http://www.i-feel-a-bit-creutzfeldt-jacob-ish.coi_am_going_to_mess_with_your_spider.htm"

See my problem?


Any help appreciated.

[Barry Higgins]

Have you tried delimiting the "." using "\\."
so

  
string.replaceAll("./", ""),

becomes

string.replaceAll("\\./", ""),

I haven't tried it here myself but it should work!

[Mahoney Futhark]

Thanks, worked just fine

[Bear Bibeault]

Moving to Java in General(intermediate)