regex help

[Tem]

i need a regex that matches either
/ABC/
or
/ABC/DEF/

I came up with
/(.*)/(.*)/

how do i make the second part optional?
thx
Tem

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: regex help

Tem wrote:

i need a regex that matches either
/ABC/
or
/ABC/DEF/
>
I came up with
/(.*)/(.*)/
>
how do i make the second part optional?

? and ?? means 0 or 1 occurrences.

Arne

PS: . also match / !

[Tem]

Re: regex help

I tried

/(.*)/?(.*)?/

to match

/ABC/
/ABC/DEF/

/ABC/ returned ABC and null which is correct
but /ABC/DEF/ returned ABC/DEF and null
is should return ABC and DEF

thanks

"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kwrote in message
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Tem wrote:

>i need a regex that matches either
>/ABC/
>or
>/ABC/DEF/
>>
>I came up with
>/(.*)/(.*)/
>>
>how do i make the second part optional?

>
? and ?? means 0 or 1 occurrences.
>
Arne
>
PS: . also match / !

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Re: regex help

Tem wrote:

"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.d kwrote in message
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>Tem wrote:

>>i need a regex that matches either
>>/ABC/
>>or
>>/ABC/DEF/
>>>
>>I came up with
>>/(.*)/(.*)/
>>>
>>how do i make the second part optional?

>>
>? and ?? means 0 or 1 occurrences.

>PS: . also match / !

I tried
>
/(.*)/?(.*)?/
>
to match
>
/ABC/
/ABC/DEF/
>
/ABC/ returned ABC and null which is correct
but /ABC/DEF/ returned ABC/DEF and null
is should return ABC and DEF

Did you note the PS ?

Try with [^/]* instead of .* !

Arne