I'm trying to find the substring of a list of URLs but having trouble due to an extra character (forward slash) at the end of one of the URL. Below are two examples of the data:

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  CodePudding user response：

  You can just trim off the final slash like this:

  select REGEXP_SUBSTR(trim(URL, '/'), '/([^/] )$', 1, 1, 'e', 1) as URL_EXTRACT
  

  Parsing the URL to a JSON as Lukasz showed will cover many more possibilities, but this will be faster for large data sets if this is the only problem to correct.

  CodePudding user response：

  You can use Positive Lookahead for this task:

  [^\/\n] (?=\/?$)
  

  Explanation:

  • [^\/\n] : any combination of characters other than slash and new line (your match)
  • (?=\/?$): positive lookahead (checks if after your match there's)
    • \/?: optional slash
    • $: end string

  Try it here.