Regular Expressions 101

/access-guide/the literal text /access-guide/ (case sensitive)

Group 1([^/]*(universit(y|ies)|colleges?))

Negated Character Class[^/]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Group 2(universit(y|ies)|colleges?)

1st Alternativeuniversit(y|ies)

universitthe literal text universit (case sensitive)

Group 3(y|ies)

1st Alternativey

ythe literal y (121₁₀ / 171₈ / 79₁₆) (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeies

iesthe literal text ies (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativecolleges?

collegethe literal text college (case sensitive)

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

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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Search reference

Regular Expression

/access-guide/([^/]*(universit(y|ies)|colleges?))

New

http://www.disabledgo.com/access-guide/the-university-of-manchester/176-waterloo-place-2

http://www.disabledgo.com/access-guide/kingston-university/coombehurst-court-2

http://www.disabledgo.com/access-guide/kings-college-london/franklin-wilkins-building-2

http://www.disabledgo.com/access-guide/redbridge-college/brook-centre-learning-resource-centre

Regular Expression

Extraction