Url rewriting a Regex help.

Question

What Regex do I need for match this url:

Match:

1234
1234/
1234/article-name

Don't match:

1234absd
1234absd/article-name
1234/article.aspx
1234/any.dot.in.the.url

Answer 1

^\d+(/?)|(/[a-zA-Z-]+)$

That may work. or not. Hope it helps

Answer 2

http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

Good tool to regular expression testing and to learn.

Answer 3

Hope this ll help u ........

        string data = "1234/article-name";
        Regex Constant = new Regex("(?<NUMBERS>([0-9]+))?(//)?(?<DATA>([a-zA-Z-]*))?");
        MatchCollection mc;
        mc = Constant.Matches(data,0);
        if (mc.Count>0)
        {
            for (int l_nIndex = 0; l_nIndex < mc.Count; l_nIndex++)
            {
                string l_strNum = mc[l_nIndex].Groups["NUMBERS"].Value;
                string l_strData = mc[l_nIndex].Groups["DATA"].Value;
            }
        }

Answer 4

You can try:

^\d+(?:\/[\w-]*)?$

This matches a non-empty sequence of digits at the beginning of the string, followed by an optional suffix of a / and a (possibly empty) sequence of word characters (letters, digits, underscore) and a -.

This matches (see on rubular):

1234
1234/
1234/article-name
42/section_13

But not:

1234absd
1234absd/article-name
1234/article.aspx
1234/any.dot.in.the.url
007/james/bond

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No parenthesis regex

You shouldn't need to do this, but if you can't use parenthesis at all, you can always expand to alternation:

^\d+$|^\d+\/$|^\d+\/[\w-]*$