Regex for URL matching that ignores query parameters

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I am trying to come up with a regular expression that matches the following URLs:

http://test.com/bobs/your/uncle/1
http://test.com/bobs/your/uncle/5
http://test.com/bobs/your/uncle/5?tab=1

But does not match the following URLs:

http://test.com/bobs/your/uncle/1/brah/5
http://test.com/bobs/your/uncle/1/brah/5?tab=2

I tried the following regex

/bobs/your/uncle/\d+\??

Which works for the first three URLs above, but not the last two.

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-29 20:33:30Z

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You can use this regex:

/bobs/your/uncle/\d+(?:\?|$)

(?:\?|$) will match ? or end of input after your desired input URIs.

answered Jun 29, 2015 at 20:33

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Kasravnd · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-29 21:01:11Z

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You need to use start and end anchors :

'bobs/your/uncle/\d+\??[^/]*$'

See demo https://regex101.com/r/pP2fL1/1

you can use [^/]* to match some extra strings like tab=1 which match any thing except /.

edited Jun 29, 2015 at 21:01

answered Jun 29, 2015 at 20:35

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mannykary Over a year ago

Should have been a bit clearer in my question, but I actually wanted to ignore the domain as well, since I'm working with localhost as well as the online staging environment. So match both http://test.com/bobs/your/uncle/1 and http://localhost:8080/bobs/your/uncle/1. But I wasn't clear in my question, so I'm still giving you an upvote since it works if I remove the the start anchor and the domain.

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