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

I know you specifically asked for regex, but you don't really need regex for this. You simply need to split the string by delimiters (in this case a backslash), then choose the part you need (in this case, the 3rd field - the first field is empty).

• cut example:

  cut -d '/' -f 3 <<< "$string"
  

• awk example:

  awk -F '/' {print $3} <<< "$string"
  

• perl expression, using split function:

  (split '/', $string)[2]
  

etc.