How do I get the last segment of URL using regular expressions

Question

I have a URL:

www.domain.com/first/second/last/

How do I get the last term between slashes? i.e. last using regular expressions?

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

[^/]+(?=/$|$)

With a (?=lookahead) you won't get the last slash.

[^/]+ Looks for at least one character that is not a slash (as many as possible). (?=/?^|^) makes sure that the next part of the string is a / and then the end of string or just end of string.

Matches match in /one/two/match, '/one/two/match/'.