Regex exclude slash character

Question

I have the following (dummy) strings, that in reality are part of URLs:

methods/english
methods/english/dummy

I want my regex to exclude strings that have a slash after english. So the second string should not match the regex.

I tried this regex:

/methods/.*/[^/]

So that it excludes the slash character.

But with this logic it still matches with methods/english/dummy. I can't figure out why.

Answer 1

You can use

^methods/[^/]+$

See the regex demo.

Details:

• ^ - start of string
• methods/ - a literal string
• [^/]+ - one or more chars other than /
• $ - end of string.