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I am trying to fetch ‘domain’ from ‘http://domain.com/some-more-path’ using regex:
/(.*)(http|https):\/\/(.*)(\/)(.*)/ and then $3
My issue is instead of ‘domain’ I get ‘domain/some-more-path’.
What am I doing wrong?
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The problem is the
.*part.*is a greedy quantifier and will consume as much characters as possible. If you put a?behind the*you switch the behaviour of the qualifier to non-greedy (i.e. it consumes only as much characters as needed).