Regex to replace file extension

I would like a regex to replace the .html file extension with a / so www.example.com/page.html becomes www.example.com/page/. I want to also exclude a folder from t开发者_开发技巧his rule so anything within www.example.com/specialdir/ should be excluded.

EDIT: This will be used in php

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Better to use htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L,QSA]

Source: Snipplr

So it will change all http://somesite/someurl to http://somesite/someurl.html in server side.

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Search for

(www\.example\.com/(?!specialdir/).*)\.html$

and replace all with \1 or $1, depending on your regex implementation.

EDIT: In PHP:

$result = preg_replace('%(www\.example\.com/(?!specialdir/).*)\.html$%', '\1', $subject);