How to escape slashes in regex?

Question

I\'ve made some regex to test for a YouTube embedded video:

/^(http:\\/\\/www\\.youtube\\.com\\/embed\\/)[^\\/\\s\\\\]+$/

It works for what I e

Answer 1

In PHP, you can also use a different regex delimiter:

~^(http://www\.youtube\.com/embed/)[^/\s\\\\]+$~