Question

I’m really a major novice at RegEx and could do with some help.

I have a long string containing lots of URL’s and other text, and one of the URL’s contains has /find/ in it. ie:

1. http://www.example.com/not/index.html
2. http://www.example.com/sat/index.html
3. http://www.example.com/find/index.html
4. http://www.example.com/rat/mine.html
5. http://www.example.com/mat/find.html

What sort of RegEx would I use to return the URL that is number 3 in that list but not return me number 5 as well? I suppose basically what I’m looking for is a way of returning a whole word that contains a specific set of letters and / in order.

TIA

Answer 1

I would assume you want preg_match("%/find/%",$input); or similar.

EDIT: To get the full line, use:

preg_match("%^.*?/find/.*$%m",$input);