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

You can even more shorten the pattern by going this way:

[^/]+/(\w+)

Here \w includes characters like A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and _

I would suggest you to give SPLIT function a priority, since i have experienced a good performance of them over RegEx functions wherever it is possible to use them.