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wise_gremlin
wise_gremlin

Reputation: 453

Matching multiple expressions in regex

I'm having a hard time matching multiple patterns in my regex and I'm wondering what could be wrong.

My test string: https://api.github.com/repos/baxterthehacker/public-repo/releases/1261438

These work as expected:

/https:\/\/api\.github\.com\/repos\/

Matches: https://api.github.com/repos/

/\/releases\/.*

Matches: /releases/1261438

My question is how do I combine the two into one statement? This is what I've tried but it only matches the first pattern and not the second for some reason.

/(https:\/\/api\.github\.com\/repos\/)|(\/releases\/.*)/

Matches: https://api.github.com/repos/

What am I doing wrong? Why is the second pattern ignored?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7250

Answers (1)

Quirk
Quirk

Reputation: 1337

The | is an OR operator for regex. It does not do concatenation. Try removing the | character from your regex string and see the magic.

The regex /(https:\/\/api\.github\.com\/repos\/).*(\/releases\/.*)/ does the trick.

Upvotes: 1

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