Question

I want to match a URI (includes a path and a UUID) that looks like this via a javascript regex:

/account/0006a8a6-b301-4168-b7de-964773a1ec66

The regex I have come closest to is this:

^\/([a-zA-Z0-9_\.~-]+)\/([a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{12})

Works fine for capturing the above – I get a match and it captures as two groups.

However, if I enter this as the URI:

/account/0006a8a6-b301-4168-b7de-964773a1ec66DSSSSSS

The regex still matches and captures the two groups, and the second match is still just the UUID, but I need it to actually fail the match and not capture anything due to the DSSSSS appended at the end. How can I change around my regex to accomplish this?

Answer 1

You forgot to add the end of line anchor $

^\/([a-zA-Z0-9_\.~-]+)\/([a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{12})$