PHP Regex for file/path

Question

What would be the php regex to match any one of the following:

privacy.html
privacy.htm
privacy
w3c/privacy.html
w3c/privacy.htm
w3c/privacy

thanks

JP

There are good examples and introductions on regular-expressions.info/php.html — mario
– mario, Commented Dec 31, 2010 at 15:18

tnunamak · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-31 15:21:43Z

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Try

(w3c/)?privacy(.htm(l)?)?

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answered Dec 31, 2010 at 15:21

tnunamak

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(l)? can just be written l?

Alan Haggai Alavi · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-31 15:16:20Z

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This should work: ^[^\/]+(?:\/[^\/]+)?$

answered Dec 31, 2010 at 15:16

Alan Haggai Alavi

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thanks.. this is more generic than what i needed. I was unable to get the exact syntax for (w3c/)? (was using extra \).