Regex to match URL end-of-line or “/” character

Question

I have a URL, and I\'m trying to match it to a regular expression to pull out some groups. The problem I\'m having is that the URL can either end or continue with a

Answer 1

In Ruby and Bash, you can use $ inside parentheses.

/(\S+?)/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})-(\d+)(/|$)

(This solution is similar to Pete Boughton's, but preserves the usage of $, which means end of line, rather than using \z, which means end of string.)