JavaScript Expression Help

[Trabjerg]

Hi!

I'm using

http://regexpal.com

to create a JavaScript expression that I can use to validate a url.

^.*/[^\.]*$
The above approves the following
/myproduct/v2.2/hub/device_session.pdf

But I don't want it to approve the last .pdf, since this will allow ALL extension, and earlier in the Apache configuration I am validating extensions.

Can someone please help me with this?

Thanks

-M

 

[Bong]

maybe this

*\/)*([^\.]*)./ig]

would give better results as a pattern

_________________
Bob Rashkin

 

[Trabjerg]

Thanks

Is this what you meant?

/([\w\d\.*\/)*([^\.]*)./ig]

I can't make it react on regexpal.com
What do you mean about pattern?

Thanks

-M

 

[Bong]

First, no. I don't know what happened with the code tags but somehow a "]"got dropped.
A pattern in RegExp-speak is the expression of what to look for within a string. In this case, it looks like you want to look for "any number, including 0, or letters, digits, or '.'": [\w\d\.]*, followed by a "/": [\w\d\.]*\/, repeated any number of times (hence the parentheses): ([\w\d\.]*\/)*. Then followed by any number of anything except "." followed by ".": ([^\.]*).

Since you didn't want to pick up the .pdf I figured you wanted to stop there. So
([\w\d\.]*\/)*([^\.]*).

_________________
Bob Rashkin

 

[Trabjerg]

Ahh.... so nice. Thanks. I will test this tomorrow. And thanks for the explanation.

-M

 

[Trabjerg]

Hi!

Well your solution seems to work, but since I use FileMatch in Apache, I learned how FileMatch really works. Anyway, I found a less advanced solution, and this works for now.

^v\d+.\d+$

Thank you for all your help

-M