Hi,

I'm trying to redirect the following types of url:

www.website.com/category1/subcategory2/original-article-title-goes-here/201503095419
www.website.com/category3/subcategory4/article-title/20120724145

to

www.website.com/category1/subcategory2/5419-original-article-title-goes-here
www.website.com/category3/subcategory4/145-article-title

The original link has a 9-13 character string at the end of it. The first 8 characters are a datestamp that I don't need to use. The remaining 1-4 characters are the Joomla article ID.

So far, I have the following (attached in screenshot)

Placeholders:
id=5419
or
id=145

This gives me the result:
www.website.com/categoryX/subcategoryY/item/5419-original-article-title-goes-here-

I cannot get it to use a dynamic ID in the placeholder, and it is adding an extra hyphen at the end of the alias that I'd like to tidy up.

What I've been trying to do is return a substring of from the 9th character onwards of that end-of-url string, and use the returned value in the placeholder. Is this possible?

Here are a couple of examples:

/career-agenda/inspiring-women/jane-kennedy/20120724145
to
/career-agenda/inspiring-women/item/145-jane-kennedy

and

/talking-about/top-stories/dr-gabrielle-mcmullin-clarifies-junior-doctors-need-support-fighting-harassment/201503095419
to
/talking-about/top-stories/item/5419-dr-gabrielle-mcmullin-clarifies-junior-doctors-need-support-fighting-harassment


We do have a lot of old->new URLs, the number may be in the thousands. The IDs of the articles could be either 3 or 4 digits.

I can PM you a large list of old URLs if that will help?

Your suggestion worked a treat, thank you Luigi!

Seems like I was SO close but just looking in the wrong direction

Thank you muchly!