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Re: Regular expression question

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Antony Scriven wrote:

> On Oct 28, 1:30 am, Antony Scriven wrote:
>> On Oct 26, 10:40 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> > I cannot think of anything that is simpler than
>> >   var matches = url.match(/(.*)\/([^\/]+)$/);
>> var matches = url.match(/(.*)\/(.*)/);
> 
> And the reason you didn't spot that

Spot what?  That your way is _not_ better?

> is also the reason why Lasse's solution (using
> String.prototype.lastIndexOf) is preferable IMHO. --Antony

http://foo.example/bar

> P.S. Sorry about the mangled quoting earlier.

Don't be sorry about *that*.


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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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