Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 12:00 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.string.removeUrlGarbage

on removeUrlGarbage (url) {
	<<Changes
		<<2/20/11; 7:33:23 PM by DW
			<<Give me a URL with utm_source=xxx&utm_medium=yyy in its params, and I'll remove them. Even better, I'll just remove any params that begin with utm_.
				<<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/wikileaks-baer-tax-avoidance-hbgary?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
	if url contains "?" {
		local (part1 = string.nthfield (url, "?", 1), part2 = string.nthfield (url, "?", 2), args, i, adrarg);
		new (tabletype, @args);
		webserver.parseargs (part2, @args);
		<<scratchpad.args = args
		for i = sizeof (args) downto 1 {
			adrarg = @args [i];
			if string.lower (nameof (adrarg^)) beginswith "utm_" {
				delete (adrarg)}};
		if sizeof (args) > 0 {
			url = part1 + "?";
			for adrarg in @args {
				url = url + nameof (adrarg^) + "=" + string.urlencode (adrarg^) + "&"};
			url = string.delete (url, sizeof (url), 1); //pop the last &
			return (url)}
		else {
			return (part1)}}
	else {
		return (url)}}
<<bundle //test code
	<<local (startticks = clock.ticks (), i)
	<<for i = 1 to 1000
		<<removeUrlGarbage ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/wikileaks-baer-tax-avoidance-hbgary?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&hello=true")
	<<dialog.alert (clock.ticks () - startticks)
	<<return
	<<dialog.alert (removeUrlGarbage ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/wikileaks-baer-tax-avoidance-hbgary?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&hello=true"))
	<<dialog.alert (removeUrlGarbage ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/wikileaks-baer-tax-avoidance-hbgary?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&hello=true&goodbye=false"))
	<<dialog.alert (removeUrlGarbage ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/wikileaks-baer-tax-avoidance-hbgary?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter"))

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