Question

i’m having problem when i want to use regexp, i don’t know to using ‘or’ , ‘and’. like in if statement.

i’m having url like this

http://localhost:85/study/list

and i’m having the words(pattern to regexp) /,/list/top

when i try using this

url ="http://localhost:85/study/list"; 
regexp = RegExp(.*/?/list?/top);
var matches =  url.match(regexp); 
alert(matches);

and when i change url to http://localhost:85/top the word of /top not detection but /list is detection . what is wrong?

i wanna to match my words in that url , how i must create regexp for that?
please tell me your answer and please give me reference for the regexp
i’m newbie thanks for helping…

Answer 1

Man, you can test your expressions here RegexPal. It seems that the expression you using havo no effects.

This expression will match the last sub-directory of your url

(\w*)$

For example http://localhost:85/study/list will match list, http://localhost:85/top will match just top.

Try it! =)