PHP Regex to match a URL pattern

Question

I am trying to build a regex in PHP so that

• /test/randomstring1/randomstring2 matches

• /test/randomstring1/randomstring2/ matches

• /test/randomstring1/randomstring2/randomstring3 does not match

I've come up with

/test\/(.+?)\/.*[^\/]/

It works fine for the 2 first cases but the third also matches. Could someone help me to figure out the thing that I am missing? Thanks!

• Wiktor Stribiżew: You need '~^/test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$~'

Answer 1

Note that . matches any char but line break chars. .* will match as many chars other than line break chars as possible.

You may use

preg_match('~^/test/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$~', $text, $matches)

See the regex demo

Details

• ^ - start of string
• /test/ - a literal substring
• ([^/]+) - Group 1: any one or more chars other than /
• / - a / char
• ([^/]+) - Group 2: any one or more chars other than /
• /? - an optional /
• $ - end of string.