Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1((?!\/content\/media\/).)*

*repeats the group contents below any number of times:

Negative Lookahead(?!\/content\/media\/)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

contentthe literal text content (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

mediathe literal text media (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

.any character (except for line terminators)

$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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

26 tokens

Regular Expression

^((?!\/content\/media\/).)*$

New

http://www.myapp.com/xyzOranotherContextRoot/rest/user/get/123?some=par#/other

http://www.myapp.com/xyzOranotherContextRoot/content/media/css/main.css?7892843

Extraction

http://www.myapp.com/xyzOranotherContextRoot/rest/user/get/123?some=par#/other

http://www.myapp.com/xyzOranotherContextRoot/content/media/css/main.css?7892843