Question

I want to create a pregmatch pattern which applies to:

http://site.local/app/**/admin

text. I created something, which looks good, but it also pass the

http://site.local/app/vf/adming

what I dont want to. The basically created pattern:

preg_match('/http:\/\/site.local\/app\/.*\\/admin/', $siteUrl)

how should it be corrected?

Btw: operators/admins, I created this thread previously and since then that account is disabled. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11139579/i-need-a-regexp Now that you see, I really tried it hard, may I get that account back? If not, I understand

Answer 1

Use ^ and $ to “tell” regex the start and end of your pattern.

preg_match('/^http:\/\/site.local\/app\/(.*)\/admin$/', 'http://site.local/app/abcd/admin');
preg_match('/^http:\/\/site.local\/app\/(.*)\/admin$/', 'http://site.local/app/abcd/admins');