I've got these strings I want to parse:
?forum=Jiné akce a jiné#comments
?trening=140#$|Pralinka
?novinka=87#comments
?forum=Mimo mísu#comments
?forum=Členské forum#comments
?trening=139#comments
and I want to output array like
1. forum
2. Jiné akce a jiné
3. comments
or
1. trening
2. 140
3. Pralinka
So I wrote following regexp:
\?([a-z]{4,})\=(.+)\#(\$\|)?([a-z]+)
But It's not working in second case (optional string part).
Remember that by default, regex are case sensitive... So [a-z] can't match Pralinka. You can fix that by using the i (case insensitive) flag, or with:
\?([a-z]{4,})=(.+)#(?:\$\|)?([A-Za-z]+)
Notice that there is no need to escape the = or the # (we're not in free spacing mode), and I added a non capturing group (?:...) so that Pralinka will be in the same capturing group as comment.
The demo is here
[a-z]+ does not match Pralinka because P is an uppercase letter.
You need to add a global flag: /g.
