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randomKek
randomKek

Reputation: 1128

Regex extract string after the second "." dot character at the end of a string

I want to extract the second "file extension" of a file name so:

/Users/path/my-path/super.lol.wtf/main.config.js

What I need is:

.config.js

What would be totally awesome if I got an array with 2 strings in return:

var output = ['main', '.config.js'];

What I have tried:

^(\d+\.\d+\.)

But that ain't working.

Thanks

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5684

Answers (2)

Josh Crozier
Josh Crozier

Reputation: 240938

You could use the following:

([^\/.\s]+)(\.[^\/\s]+)$

Example Here

  • ([^\/.\s]+) - Capturing group excluding the characters / and . literally as well as any white space character(s) one or more times.

  • (\.[^\/\s]+) - Similar to the expression above; capturing group starting with the . character literally; excluding the characters / and . literally as well as any white space character(s) one or more times.

  • $ - End of a line

Alternatively, you could also use the following:

(?:.*\/|^)([^\/.\s]+)(\.[^\/\s]+)$

Example Here

  • (?:.*\/|^) - Same as the expression above, except this will narrow the match down to reduce the number of steps. It's a non-capturing group that will either match the beginning of the line or at the / character.

The first expression is shorter, but the second one has better performance.

Both expressions would match the following:

['main', '.config.js']

In each of the following:

/Users/path/my-path/some.other.ext/main.config.js
some.other.ext/main.config.js
main.config.js

Upvotes: 6

Ali Nikneshan
Ali Nikneshan

Reputation: 3502

Here is what you need:

(?:\/?(?:.*?\/)*)([^.]+)*\.([^.]+\.[^.]+)$
  • (?: means detect and ignore,
  • [^.]+ means anything except .
  • .*? means pass until last /

Check Here

Upvotes: 3

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