Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

^start of line

vkthe literal text vk (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

com/the literal text com/ (case sensitive)

Negative Lookahead(?!album)

albumthe literal text album (case sensitive)

\w+a Unicode word character, repeated at least once

$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

Match Information

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Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^vk\.com/(?!album)\w+$

New

vk.com/albums54751623?z=photo54751623_341094858%2Fphotos54751623
vk.com/albums54751623
vk.com/id36375649
vk.com/id36375649
vk.com/id36375649?z=album-28413960_228518010
vk.com/tania_sevostianova

Extraction

vk.com/albums54751623?z=photo54751623_341094858%2Fphotos54751623
vk.com/albums54751623
vk.com/id36375649
vk.com/id36375649
vk.com/id36375649?z=album-28413960_228518010
vk.com/tania_sevostianova