Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Group 1(https?:\/\/\S*\/recordings\/[^\s\/]+)

httpthe literal text http (case sensitive)

s?optionally matches the literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\S*any non-whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

recordingsthe literal text recordings (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\s\/]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

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

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\s\/]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\sany whitespace character

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

$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

^(https?:\/\/\S*\/recordings\/[^\s\/]+)(?:\/[^\s\/]*)?$

New

https://somewebsite.com/somethingsomething/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1/play
https://somewebsite.com/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1

Substitution

https://somewebsite.com/somethingsomething/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1/play
https://somewebsite.com/recordings/10680-2162-4cff-991a-446ecff1