Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Negative Lookahead(?!.*(sub-cat|sub-cat2|\.html$))

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

Group 1(sub-cat|sub-cat2|\.html$)

1st Alternativesub-cat

sub-catthe literal text sub-cat (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativesub-cat2

sub-cat2the literal text sub-cat2 (case sensitive)

3rd Alternative\.html$

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

htmlthe literal text html (case sensitive)

$end of line

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

/webshop/category/the literal text /webshop/category/ (case sensitive)

.+any character (except for line terminators), 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

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

^(?!.*(sub-cat|sub-cat2|\.html$)).*/webshop/category/.+$

New

/webshop/category/foo/bar/file.php
/webshop/category/foo/bar/file.html
/webshop/category/sub-cat/bar/
/webshop/category/sub-cat2/bar/

/webshop/category/foo/bar/file.php
/webshop/category/foo/bar/file.html
/webshop/category/sub-cat/bar/
/webshop/category/sub-cat2/bar/