Regex - Ignore Particular String In Capture Group

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I'm looking to capture the string between www.my-website.com/buy/ and -PERMANENT.html if it exists, but am having trouble doing so. I'm unsure how to create a capture group that would ignore a consecutive string. My attempts have failed so far.

www\.my-website\.com\/buy\/([^-PERMANENT.html]*)

www.my-website.com/buy/fork                          (Capture fork)
www.my-website.com/buy/wand                          (Capture wand)
www.my-website.com/buy/ball-PERMANENT.html           (Capture ball)
www.my-website.com/buy/bike-PERMANENT.html           (Capture bike)
www.my-website.com/buy/base-PERMANENT.html-ball      (Capture base)
www.my-website.com/buy/wall-PERMANENT.html-glue      (Capture wall)

Bohemian · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-21 00:11:09Z

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You don't even need groups. The whole match of this regex is your target:

(?<=www\.my-website\.com\/buy\/).*?(?=-PERMANENT.html|$)

See live demo.

edited Oct 21, 2016 at 0:11

answered Oct 20, 2016 at 23:51

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Sebastian Proske · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-20 23:41:40Z

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If your URLs are really that simple, you could go by lazy matching, like

www\.my-website\.com\/buy\/(.*?)(?:-PERMANENT.html|$)

See the demo

answered Oct 20, 2016 at 23:41

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