[UPHPU] regex help

[Tyler Gee]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Tyler Gee <geekout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Wade Preston Shearer
>  <lists at wadeshearer.com> wrote:
>  > I am trying to match both…
>  >
>  >  http://example.com/a/b
>  >
>  >  …and…
>  >
>  >  http://example.com/a/b/
>  >
>  >
>  >  ^(.*)/(.*)$
>
>  Regexp are greedy by default and they always return the first match,
>  so your first (.)

This should have said, "your first (.*)"

> will burn to the end of the string and then batch
>  the '/' and then there is nothing to match the (.*)$.  The solutions
>  are mailed back just make the last '/' optional (0 or 1 occurence)
>  which means when the first regexp doesn't match, it tries again not
>  being greedy and this time matches the optional '/'
>
>
>  >
>  >  …works for the first and…
>  >
>  >  ^(.*)/(.*)/$
>  >
>  >
>  >  …works for the second, but I can't find a solution that matches both.
>  >  Shouldn't the first match both because I am stopping after the "b" and
>  >  not caring about thing else after that?
>  >
>
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>  ~Tyler
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