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FEi.TH
FEi.TH

Reputation: 101

Regex: how to stop match a url if it fits one pattern

I'm writing a url rewrite regex to find strings having dash between each slash pair, for example,

/aaa-bb/cc/dd-ee-ff/gg

should match aaa-bb and dd-ee-ff. I need it to match nothing if url contains /test/, so for url /aaa-bb/cc/test/dd-ee-ff/gg, it should match nothing. I have written a regex 

/\w+-(\w+(?!\.)-?)+

it will find all strings contains -, but I can't add the pattern for the /test/ part.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 276

Answers (2)

whoisgregg
whoisgregg

Reputation: 75

Immediately preceding your RewriteRule that contains your regex, add a rewrite condition to exclude urls that contain the substring /test/ anywhere in it. That RewriteCond would look like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/
RewriteRule /\w+-(\w+(?!\.)-?)+ /some_place_else.html?parameters=$1

Upvotes: 1

Kristian
Kristian

Reputation: 21820

As far as I know, regex cannot maintain a state, and for that reason you should separate what you're doing into two separate checks, nesting the dash check within the test check.

if(!hasTest) {
  //check for dashes
}

Upvotes: 1

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