JS:
'abc/foln'.match(/[^\/]*?\/?$/); // ['foln']
PHP:
preg_match_all('/[^\/]*?\/?$/', 'abc/foln', $e); // ['foln', '']
preg_match_all('/\/[^\/]*?\/?$/', 'abc/foln', $e); // ['/foln']
preg_match_all('/\/?[^\/]*?\/?$/', 'abc/foln', $e); // ['/foln', '']
How can i achieve the same result in PHP as in JS?
And would be interesting to know why this difference.
You should use preg_match rather than preg_match_all. preg_match_all is analogous to using JavaScript .match() with a regexp with the g modifier, e.g.
console.log('abc/foln'.match(/[^\/]*?\/?$/g));The reason you get an empty match when you return all matches is because the * and ? quantifiers will match empty strings, so the whole regexp matches the empty string at the end of the string.
There's generally little point to returning multiple matches when the regexp is anchored with ^ or $, since they can only match once (unless you're using the m modifier, which makes them match beginning/end of lines rather than the whole string).
preg_match_all('/[^\\/]*?\\/?$/', 'abc/foln', $e);in case the backslash needs to be escaped to a literal[^\/]*to[^\/]+so it doesn't match an empty string at the end.