Regular Expression for getting everything after last slash [duplicate]

Answer 1

^ at the start of [] is character class negation. [...] specifies a set of characters to match. [^...] means match every character except that set of characters.

So [^/] means match every possible character except /.

Answer 2

No, the ^ means different things depending on context. When inside a character class (the [] ), the ^ negates the expression, meaning "match anything except /.

Outside of [], the ^ means what you just said.

Answer 3

Within brackets, ^/ means NOT A /. So this is matching a sequence of non-/'s up to the end of the line.

Answer 4

if you put the ^ in a group it says all charters not in this group. So match all charter that are not slashes until the end of line $ anchor.

Answer 5

In original question, just a backslash is needed before slash, in this case regex will get everything after last slash in the string

([^\/]+$)

Answer 6

No, an ^ inside [] means negation.

[/] stands for 'any character in set [/]'.

[^/] stands for 'any character not in set [/]'.