Tuesday, January 17, 2017

regex - Regular Expression for getting everything after last slash




I was browsing stackoverflow and have noticed a regular expression for matching everything after last slash is



([^/]+$)


So for example if you have http://www.blah.com/blah/test
The reg expression will extract 'test' without single quotes.



My question is why does it do it? Doesn't ^/ mean beginning of a slash?




EDIT:
I guess I do not understand how +$ grabs "test". + repeats the previous item once or more so it ignores all data between all the / slashes. how does then $ extract the test


Answer



No, an ^ inside [] means negation.



[/] stands for 'any character in set [/]'.



[^/] stands for 'any character not in set [/]'.


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