Regular Expressions 101

Pro

httpthe literal text http (case sensitive)

Group 1(s)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

sthe literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

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

Group 2(\d{4})

\d{4}a digit, repeated exactly 4 times

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

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 3(.*)

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

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

http(s)?:\/\/.*(\d{4}).*\/(.*)

New

http://my-domain-1234.more-stuff.com/snowblower
https://my-domain-1234.more-stuff.com/snowblower
http://example-4321.software.com/xmlsfasfd

http://my-domain-1234.more-stuff.com/snowblower
https://my-domain-1234.more-stuff.com/snowblower
http://example-4321.software.com/xmlsfasfd