Question

I really don’t know what my problem is lately, but Regex seems to be giving me the most trouble.

Very simple thing I need to do, but can’t seem to get it:

I have a uri that returns either /xmlfeed or /xmlfeed/what/is/this

I want to match /xmlfeed on any occasion.

I’ve tried many variations of the following:


preg_match('/(\/.*?)\/?/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $match);


I would read this as: Match forwardslash then match any character until you come to an optional forwardslash.

Answer 1

Why not:

preg_match ('#/[^/]+#', _SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $match);

?

$match[0] will give you what you need