php regex capturing parantheses

Question

I can't capture what i want with capturing parantheses... I'm searching in /hodsakers/marsh-zwartArray/d and i want to capture marsh-zwartArray but sometimes the last / is not present in what i'm searching. I search and try many things =/ like :

(marshall[\s\S]*)\/

it work but if the last backslash is not present it doesn't. I also try

(marsh[\s\S]*)(\/)?

in this case that's the opposite, it work without the last backslash but not anymore if there is one, it will get all the string and capture nothing =/ So i don't know how i can capture in both cases =/ Thanks for your help

Answer 1

You may use a [^\/]* negated character class to match 0+ chars other than /:

/marsh[^\/]*/

See the regex demo