Regular Expression to collect everything after the last /

Question

I\'m new at regular expressions and wonder how to phrase one that collects everything after the last /.

I\'m extracting an ID used by Google\'s GData.

Answer 1

/^.*\/(.*)$/

^ = start of the row

.*\/ = greedy match to last occurance to / from start of the row

(.*) = group of everything that comes after the last occurance of /