How do I get the last segment of URL using regular expressions

Question

I have a URL:

www.domain.com/first/second/last/

How do I get the last term between slashes? i.e. last using regular expressions?

Answer 1

Here's a simple regex:

[^/]+(?=/$|$)

Should match anything you throw at it.

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If you want to look in a particular directory, use this:

/directory.*/([^/]+)/?$

and your result will be in the first capture group.