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Re: Regular expression question

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Dr J R Stockton wrote:

> <ron.eggler@gmail.com> posted:
>> First thing, I'm a regular expression newbie.... somewhat anyways...
>> I would like to recognize the difference between this url:
>> http://quaaoutlodge.com/site/the-lodge/our-history.html
>> and that url:
>> http://quaaoutlodge.com/site/the-lodge.html
>> and at the same time extract the document name (our-history or the-
>> lodge) and the directory name if present (the-lodge).
>> I got stuck at how rto rcognize the second directory instead of the
>> first (the-lodge/ instead of site/) with "\b\/[a-z]+\/" how do i get
>> the second one only?
> 
> The easiest way, teaching nothing about RegExps, should be to use the
> string method 'split' with an argument "/", and contemplate the result
> and its length.

By contrast, that requires accessing the `length' property of the resulting 
array, too, and is inflexible with regard to potential query and fragment 
parts.


PointedEars
-- 
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
    navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
    && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
)  // Plone, register_function.js:16

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Regular expression question cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2011-10-25 21:43 -0700
  Re: Regular expression question Mike Duffy <never@you.mind.com> - 2011-10-26 12:11 +0000
  Re: Regular expression question Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-10-26 16:54 +0000
  Re: Regular expression question Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn.unread@gmail.com> - 2011-10-26 19:33 +0200
    Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-26 23:40 +0200
      Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 17:30 -0700
        Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 17:39 -0700
          Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-28 03:50 +0200
            Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 08:46 -0700
            Re: Regular expression question Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn.unread@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 18:50 +0200
              Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-28 19:50 +0200
                Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 11:41 -0700
                Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 12:54 -0700
  Re: Regular expression question Dr J R Stockton <reply1143@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-27 19:41 +0100
    Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-28 04:12 +0200

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