问题
This is maybe the 100+1 question regarding regex optional suffixes on SO, but I didn't find any, that could help me :(
I need to extract a part of string from the common pattern:
prefix/s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g/suffix
using a regular expression. The prefix is constant and the suffix may not appear at all, so prefix/(.+)/suffix doesn't meet my requirements. Pattern prefix/(.+)(?:/suffix)? returns s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g/suffix. The part (?:/suffix)? must be somehow more greedy.
I want to get s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g from these input strings:
prefix/s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g/suffix
prefix/s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g/
prefix/s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g
Thanks in advance!
回答1:
Try
prefix\/(.+?)\/?(?:suffix|$)
The regex need to know when the match is done, so match either suffix or end of line ($), and make the capture non greedy.
See it here at regex101.
回答2:
Try prefix(.*?)(?:/?(?:suffix|$)) if there are characters allowed before prefix of after suffix.
This requires the match to be as short as possible (reluctant quantifier) and be preceeded by one of 3 things: a single slash right before the end of the input, /suffix or the end of the input. That would match /s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g in the test cases you provided but would match more for input like prefix/s/o/m/e/t/h/i/n/g/suff (which is ok IMO since you don't know whether /suff is meant to be part of the match or a typo in the suffix).
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39723275/regex-with-prefix-and-optional-suffix