I need to create a route that responses to any string starting with '#' character. Routes like following examples :
www.mywebsite.com/#john
www.mywebsite.com/#jack
www.mywebsite.com/#something
So I wrote:
Route::get('{something}','SomeController#someMethod')->where('something','/#^/');
But when I test it, I face 404 not found found page.
what is the correct regular expression for this?
Route::get('/{tag}', 'SomeController#someMethod')->where('tag', '^#.*');
This will also work:
Route::get('#{something}', 'SomeController#someMethod');
You can write this
Route::pattern('tag', '#[a-zA-Z]');
Route::get('{tag}', 'SomeController#someMethod');
This way you seperate the logic of the regex and the route and it will work as you want
Note the #^ pattern means # should be followed with the beginning of string, which is not possible, and the pattern never matches any string. The '^#' pattern asserts the position at the start of the string, and only there does it try to match #.
Also, the usual / regex delimiters should be removed from this pattern as they are treated as part of the pattern here.
So, in your case you may just swap the anchor and the # char:
Route::get('{something}','SomeController#someMethod')->where('something','^#');
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I have lines like this:
example.com/p/stuff/...
example.com/page/thing/...
example.com/page/stuff/...
example.com/page/other-stuff/...
etc
where the dots represent continuing URL paths. I want to select URLs that contain /page/ and are NOT followed by thing/. So from the above list we would select:
example.com/page/stuff/...
example.com/page/other-stuff/...
.*?\/page\/[^(thing)].*
this is the regex for matching a string which has /page/ not followed by thing
adding the lazy evalation is suggested because you advance a char at the time, better performance!
You need to use negative lookahead:
example\.com\/page\/(?!thing\/).*
Demo
Use the following regex pattern:
.*?\/page\/(?!thing\/).*
https://regex101.com/r/19wh1w/2
(?!thing\/) - negative lookahead assertion ensures that page/ section is not followed by thing/
I'd like to set up a regular expression that matches certain patterns for a URL:
http://www.domain.com/folder1/folder2/anything/anything/index.html
This matches, and gets the job done:
/^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/folder1\/folder2\/.*\/.*\/index\.html([\?#].*)?$/.test(location.href)
I'm unsure how to limit the wildcards to one folder each. So how can I prevent the following from matching:
http://www.domain.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/index.html
(note: folder 5+ is what I want to prevent)
Thanks!
Try this regular expression:
/^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/(?:\w+\/){1,3}index\.html([\?#].*)?$/
Change the number 3 to the maximum depth of folders possible.
. matches any character.
[^/] matches any characters except /.
Since the / character marks the begining and end of regex literals, you may have to escape them like this: [^\/].
So, replacing .* by [^\/]* will do what you want:
/^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/folder1\/folder2\/[^\/]*\/[^\/]*\/index\.html([\?#].*)?$/.test(location.href)
/^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/folder1\/folder2\/[^/]*\/[^/]*\/index\.html([\?#].*)?$/
I don't remember whether we should escape the slashes within the []. I don't think so.
EDIT: Aknoledging tom's comment using + instead of *:
/^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/folder1\/folder2\/[^/]+\/[^/]+\/index\.html([\?#].*)?$/
/^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/\([^/]*\/\)\{2\}/
And you can change 2 to whatever number of directories you want to match.
You may use:
^http:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/folder1\/folder2\/(\w*\/){2}index\.html([\?#].*)?$/.test(location.href)
I need to create a regex query for a Google Analytics goal. The goal url must contain:
thankYou.sjs?donate_page
However, there are many urls than can render this string, all with other modifiers that I don't care about.
Please advise.
#ExplosionPills: I think you forgot about the special meaning of the question mark.
If you don't escape it, your expression:
^thankYou.sjs?donate_path$
Would match
thankYou.sjsdonate_path
or
thankYou.sjdonate_path
Not to mention the special meaning of dot.
So I guess something like this should work:
thankYou\.sjs\?donate_path
Furthermore if it's possible that the donate_path is not the first in the query string you can use this:
thankYou\.sjs\?([^&]*&)*donate_path
Just the string itself will work. If you want only this string, just use the start/end of string zero-width assertions:
^thankYou\.sjs\?donate_path$
im looking to use a regular expression to parse a URL to get a specific section of the url and nothing if I cannot find the pattern.
A url example is
/te/file/value/jifle?uil=testing-cdas-feaw:jilk:&jklfe=https://value-value.jifels/temp.html/topic?id=e997aad4-92e0-j30e-a3c8-jfkaliejs5#c452fds-634d-f424fds-cdsa&bf_action=jildape
I wish to get the bolded text in it.
Currently im using the regex "d=([^#]*)" but the problem is im also running across urls of this pattern:
and im getting the bold section of it
/te/file/value/jifle?uil=testing-cdas-feaw:jilk:&jklfe=https://value-value.jifels/temp.html/topic?id=e997aad4-92e0-j30e-a3c8-jfkaliejs5&bf_action=jildape
I would prefer it have no matches of this url because it doesnt contain the #
Regexes are not a magic tool that you should always use just because the problem involves a string. In this case, your language probably has a tool to break apart URLs for you. In PHP, this is parse_url(). In Perl, it's the URI::URL module.
You should almost always prefer an existing, well-tested solution to a common problem like this rather than writing your own.
So you want to match the value of the id parameter, but only if it has a trailing section containing a '#' symbol (without matching the '#' or what's after it)?
Not knowing the specifics of what style of regexes you're using, how about something like:
id=([^#&]*)#
regex = "id=([\\w-])+?#"
This will grab everything that is character class[a-zA-Z_0-9-] between 'id=' and '#' assuming everything between 'id=' and '#' is in that character class(i.e. if an '&' is in there, the regex will fail).
id=
-Self explanatory, this looks for the exact match of 'id='
([\\w-])
-This defines and character class and groups it. The \w is an escaped \w. '\w' is a predefined character class from java that is equal to [a-zA-Z_0-9]. I added '-' to this class because of the assumed pattern from your examples.
+?
-This is a reluctant quantifier that looks for the shortest possible match of the regex.
#
-The end of the regex, the last character we are looking for to match the pattern.
If you are looking to grab every character between 'id=' and the first '#' following it, the following will work and it uses the same logic as above, but replaces the character class [\\w-] with ., which matches anything.
regex = "id=(.+?)#"
I'm trying to use the IIS 7 URL Rewrite feature for the first time, and I'm having trouble getting my regular expression working. It seems like it should be simple enough. All I need to do is rewrite a URL like this:
http://localhost/myApplication/MySpecialFolder
To:
http://localhost/MySpecialFolder
Is this possible? I want the regular expression to ignore everything before "myApplication" in the original URL, so that I could use "http://localhost" OR "http://mysite", etc.
Here's what I've got so far:
^myApplication/MySpecialFolder$
But using the "Test Pattern..." feature in IIS, it says my patterns don't match unless I supply "myApplication/MySpecialFolder" exactly. Does anyone know how I can update my regular expression so that everything prior to "myApplication" is ignored and the following URLs will be seen as a match?
http://localhost/myApplication/MySpecialFolder
http://mysite/myApplication/MySpecialFolder
Many thanks in advance!
SOLUTION:
I needed to change my regex to:
myApplication/MySpecialFolder
Without the ^ at the beginning and without the $ at the end.
Your regular expression is correct, the pattern will be matched against path starting after the first slash after the domain.
So only bold part will be used for matching: http://localhost/myApplication/MySpecialFolder
To limit the rewriting to specific domain you have to use Conditions section with Condition input = {HTTP_HOST}
Unless there is something radically different with regexes in IIS, you would want to take out the anchor (^) at the beginning to match.
myApplication/MySpecialFolder$
The carat ^ tells it that that is the beginning of the string and the dollar sign $ tells it to match the end. A regex like abc finds "abc" anywhere in the string, ^abc matches strings that start with "abc", abc$ matches strings that end with "abc", and ^abc$ only matches when the whole string is "abc".