Java - Regex problem

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Java - Regex problem

I have list of URLs of types:

• http://www.example.com/pk/etc
• http://www.example.com/pk/etc/
• http://www.example.com/pk/etc/etc

where etc can be anything.

So I want to search only those URLs that contains www.example.com/pk/etc or www.example.com/pk/etc/.

Note: It is for all those who think that it is a duplicate question -- Kindly read both the questions carefully before marking this question as duplicate. Even after reading you can't understand that both the questions are different, then kindly leave without marking it as duplicate because I can't tell you the diff. in anymore detail

Answer 1

Your problem isn't fully defined so I can't give you an exact answer but this should be a start you can use:

^[^:]+://[^/]+\.com/pk/[^/]+/?$

The difference is that the / is no longer optional and there must be at least one more character after pk/.

These strings will match:

http://www.example.com/pk/ca
http://www.example.com/pk/ca/
https://www.example.com/pk/ca/

These strings won't match:

http://www.example.com/pk//
http://www.example.co.uk/pk/ca
http://www.example.com/pk
http://www.example.com/pk/
http://www.example.com/anthingcangoeshere/pk
http://www.example.com/pkisnotnecessaryhere
http://www.example.com/pk/ca/sf

Answer 2

String pattern = "http://www.example.com/pk/[^/]+/?$";

I am assuming http://www.example.com/pk// is not accepted. If this should be accepted too, then use

String pattern = "http://www.example.com/pk/[^/]*/?$";

Answer 3

So I want to search only those URLs that contains www.example.com/pk/etc or www.example.com/pk/etc/.

Update

I think this will work:

https?://.*\\.?[A-Za-z0-9]+\\.com/pk/etc/?[^.]

But every item in the list you gave contains what you are searching for.