Regular Expressions 101

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

apithe literal text api (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

pingthe literal text ping (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[.\/].*)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Character Class[.\/]

.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

\/api\/ping(?:[.\/].*)?$

New

/api/ping.json
/api/ping
/api/ping/xxx/sss.json
/api/ping.xml

and this should NOT match

/api/pingpong
/api/ping_pong
/api/ping-pong

/api/ping.json
/api/ping
/api/ping/xxx/sss.json
/api/ping.xml

and this should NOT match

/api/pingpong
/api/ping_pong
/api/ping-pong