I am trying to build a regex in PHP so that
/test/randomstring1/randomstring2 matches
/test/randomstring1/randomstring2/ matches
/test/randomstring1/randomstring2/randomstring3 does not match
I've come up with
/test\/(.+?)\/.*[^\/]/
It works fine for the 2 first cases but the third also matches. Could someone help me to figure out the thing that I am missing? Thanks!
Note that . matches any char but line break chars. .* will match as many chars other than line break chars as possible.
You may use
preg_match('~^/test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$~', $text, $matches)
See the regex demo
Details
^ - start of string/test/ - a literal substring([^/]+) - Group 1: any one or more chars other than // - a / char([^/]+) - Group 2: any one or more chars other than //? - an optional /$ - end of string.
'~^/test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$~'