Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

shopthe literal text shop (case sensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

categorythe literal text category (case sensitive)

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

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

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

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 1([^\/]+)

Negated Character Class[^\/]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\/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

^shop\/category(?:\/.*)?\/([^\/]+)$

New

shop/category/subcategory1/subcategory2/slug
shop/category/subcategory3/slug /shop/category/slug

shop/category/new/$1

shop/category/subcategory1/subcategory2/slug
shop/category/subcategory3/slug /shop/category/slug