Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

movie/the literal text movie/ (case sensitive)

Group 1(.+?)

.+?any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 2(news|videos)

1st Alternativenews

newsthe literal text news (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativevideos

videosthe literal text videos (case sensitive)

Non-Capturing Group(?:/page/(\d+)|)

1st Alternative/page/(\d+)

/page/the literal text /page/ (case sensitive)

Group 3(\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

2nd Alternative — matches an empty string

/?optionally matches 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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Regular Expression

^movie/(.+?)/(news|videos)(?:/page/(\d+)|)/?$

Test String
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movie/foo-movie/news/
movie/foo-movie/news/page/2/
movie/foo-movie/news2/

movie/foo-movie/videos/
movie/foo-movie/videos/page/2/
movie/foo-movie/videos2/

movie/foo-movie/child-post/news/
movie/foo-movie/child-post/videos/
movie/foo-movie/child-post/news/page/2/
movie/foo-movie/child-post/videos/page/2/

Regular Expression

Test StringNew

Test String
New