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Alex S
Alex S

Reputation: 222

Match Text Between The Last / And A?

I'm trying to extract the ID of a Notion database from a URL e.g. the bold text in https://www.notion.so/anotioneer/d77d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?v=1dedd49c5403489ebb899a290111f858.

I can match everything after anotioneer/ with anotioneer\/(.+) and everything before the ? with .*(?=\?) but I'm struggling to combine the two expressions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 22

Answers (1)

D M
D M

Reputation: 7179

Would something like this work?

anotioneer\/(\w+)(?:$|\?)
  • Start with the last segment of the path: anotioneer\/.
  • Take one or more alphanumeric characters as a group: (\w+).
  • Match either the end of the line or the query string in a non-capturing group: (?:$|\?).

Here's the valid sample data I used:

/anotioneer/d77d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?v=1dedd49c5403489ebb899a290111f858
/anotioneer/d79d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?v=3dedd49c5403489ebb899a290111f858
/anotioneer/d80d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?v=4dedd49c5403489ebb899a290111f858&t=123

One that doesn't match because there's an extra path segment between anotioneeer and the ID:

/anotioneer/foo/d78d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?v=2dedd49c5403489ebb899a290111f858

And one that doesn't match because there's an extra path segment after the ID:

/anotioneer/d81d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a/foo

Here's what the matches look like using this pattern. Note that you'll want to take the first group, not the whole match. That's why we used a non-capturing group for the end-of-line or query string segment.

Part Location Contents
Match 1 22-66 anotioneer/d77d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?
Group 1 33-65 d77d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a
--- --- ---
Match 2 123-167 anotioneer/d79d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?
Group 1 134-166 d79d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a
--- --- ---
Match 3 224-268 anotioneer/d80d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a?
Group 1 235-267 d80d1d19d4a943358898f2be65499d6a

Upvotes: 1

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