Question

I’m facing a problem with Regex… I had to match sharepoint URL.. I need to match the “shortest”

Something like:

http://aaaaaa/sites/aaaa/aaaaaa/

m = Regex.Match(URL, ".+/sites/.+/");

m.Value equals to the whole string…

How can I make it match

http://aaaaaaa/sites/aaaa/

and nothing else??

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

.+ is greedy, so it will match as many characters as possible before stopping. Change it to .+? and the match will end as soon as possible:

m = Regex.Match(URL, ".+/sites/.+?/");