Regex for parsing directory and filename

Question

I\'m trying to write a regex that will parse out the directory and filename of a fully qualified path using matching groups.

so...

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Answer 1

Try this:

/^(\/([^/]+\/)*)(.*)$/

It will leave the trailing slash on the path, though.

Answer 2

What language? and why use regex for this simple task?

If you must:

^(.*)/([^/]*)$

gives you the two parts you wanted. You might need to quote the parentheses:

^\(.*\)/\([^/]*\)$

depending on your preferred language syntax.

But I suggest you just use your language's string search function that finds the last "/" character, and split the string on that index.