I’m trying to create a regular expression that can contain some of those three

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Asked: June 7, 20262026-06-07T09:36:21+00:00 2026-06-07T09:36:21+00:00

I’m trying to create a regular expression that can contain some of those three elements 0…X times :

/cat1/var1

/cat2/var2

/cat3/var3

This is what I got so far :

((cat1|cat2|cat3)/(?P<var>\w+))*

In this sample string it’s only matching the first occurrence : http://url.dev/cat1/aaaaa/cat1/bbbbb/cat2/ccccc

In this sample there is also two occurrences of cat1, I would like to know if its possible to harvest the two values.

A few samples of what I want to match :

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-07T09:36:23+00:00

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could you just use

(cat\d/(?P<var\d>\w+))*

It will match all cat/var occurences

[EDIT]

so was :

/(cat\d\/\w+)/g

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