I just modified your regex:
- Escaped the slaches (maybe it's not required depending of the language you're using)
made the
/newdirectory
part optional using?
^www.someurl.com\/dir1(\/[a-zA-Z]+)?\/dir2\/dir3\/page?.*
Pergunta
I'm having problems writing an all encompassing regular expression for the following.
I have a url in the format
www.someurl.com/dir1/dir2/dir3/page?bunchofrandomvariables
I also have a slightly modified version of this URL going
www.someurl.com/dir1/newdirectory/dir2/dir3/page?bunchofrandomvariables
Where newdirectory can be alphanumeric and can include dashes.
I want a regular expresssion that can match on the original URL (with no "newdirectory") AND any "newdirectory" that comes to pass.
My first attempt was something akin to
^www.someurl.com/dir1/[a-zA-Z]+/dir2/dir3/page?.*
Unfortunately, that breaks the 1st example, since the [a-zA-Z]+ captures "dir2". Is there anyway to write this with lookaheads to capture both examples in one line?
Solução
I just modified your regex:
made the /newdirectory
part optional using ?
^www.someurl.com\/dir1(\/[a-zA-Z]+)?\/dir2\/dir3\/page?.*