Need to refine this regex expression

Question

The input I can get might be

/DemoSystems/DemoFramework/MyRepo/MyModule/tags/2015_02_22

or

/DemoSystems/DemoFramework/MyRepo/MyModule/tags/2015_02_22/Demo.Tests/AverageTests.cs

I need to extract in both cases.

/DemoSystems/DemoFramework/MyRepo/MyModule/tags/2015_02_22

Regex:

^(.*?)tags

is matching till

/DemoSystems/DemoFramework/MyRepo/MyModule/tags

And added complexity is that 2015_02_22 can be anything. A mix of number alphabets and whitespaces. Basically depends on developer. So in other words I have to match till 'tags' + the next folder after it.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

You can use:

.*?tags\/[^\/]+

It will match anything from the start of the line until the word tags, the / after the word tags and the following characters until another / (excluding that) or the end of the string.

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