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mhergon
mhergon

Reputation: 1678

Why regex doesn't work? Swift

I have this regex expression that works on http://www.regexr.com but not in iOS. Anyone know what's wrong?

let regex = NSRegularExpression(pattern: "v=(.+?)(?=\\s|&)", options: NSRegularExpressionOptions.CaseInsensitive, error: &error)

Original regex: v=(.+?)(?=\s|&)

Regex is applied over this test URLs (separated):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjifp5oi6dE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdigMMGadDM&feature=relmfu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdigMMGadDM&feature=relmfu&asdsadsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdigMMGadDM&feature=relmfu&asdsadsa&asdfasdasdasQ%4&asdsadsad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=relmfu&asdsadsa&asdfasdasdasQ%4&asdsadsad&v=gdigMMGadDM

Thanks!

EDIT 1:

Here's the code:

// Get video ID
var error: NSError?
let regex = NSRegularExpression(pattern: "v=(.+?)(?=\\s|&)", options: NSRegularExpressionOptions.CaseInsensitive, error: &error)
println(originalURL)
println(regex)
let match: NSTextCheckingResult? = regex.firstMatchInString(originalURL, options: NSMatchingOptions(0), range: NSMakeRange(0, countElements(originalURL)))
println(match)
let videoID = (originalURL as NSString).substringWithRange(match!.range).stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("v=", withString: "")
println(videoID)

"match" is nil!

EDIT 2:

Expected results: regexr.com/39loc

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1386

Answers (1)

Martin R
Martin R

Reputation: 539685

Your pattern does not find "v=..." at the end of the string, because (?=\\s|&) expects a following white space or "&" character. With "v=(.+?)(?=$|&)" you should get the expected result.

Upvotes: 3

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