Regex to find text between second and third slashes

Question

I would like to capture the text that occurs after the second slash and before the third slash in a string. Example:

/ipaddress/databasename/

I need to capt

Answer 1

The regex would be:

/[^/]*/([^/]*)/

so in Perl, the regex capture statement would be something like:

($database) = $text =~ m!/[^/]*/([^/]*)/!;

Normally the / character is used to delimit regexes but since they're used as part of the match, another character can be used. Alternatively, the / character can be escaped:

($database) = $text =~ /\/[^\/]*\/([^\/]*)\//;