I'm trying to match all URIs (of some specific pattern) without their suffix. My regex works when the address actually has a suffix, but I want it to also match cases where the suffix is already gone.

Regex:

(. recordings\/. )(\/.*)$

Matches:

https://somewebsite.com/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1/play
https://somewebsite.com/somethingsomething/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1/somesuffix

I'm trying to match this case as well:

https://somewebsite.com/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1

I've been playing with this for a couple of hours but unfortunately my knowledge of regex is limited.

you can test my regex here

Regex experts out there please help

CodePudding user response：

You could change the . at the end to \S to match non whitespace chars ad then optionally match the last part matching non whitespace chars without /

(\S recordings\/[^\s\/] )(?:\/.*)?$

Regex demo

Or match the protocol and optional non whitespace chars

^(https?:\/\/\S*\/recordings\/[^\s\/] )(?:\/.*)?$

Regex demo

CodePudding user response：

You can use

^(.*\/recordings\/.*?)(?:\/([^\/]*))?$

See the regex demo

Details:

• ^ - start of string
• (.*\/recordings\/.*?) - Group 1:
  • .* - any zero or more chars other than line break chars as many as possible
  • \/recordings\/ - a literal /recordings/ string
  • .*? - any zero or more chars other than line break chars as few as possible
• (?:\/([^\/]*))? - an optional non-capturing group matching one or zero occurrences of
  • \/ - a / char
  • ([^\/]*) - Group 2: zero or more chars other than /
• $ - end of string.