url/foo/this:bar

i need to check if theres a word in the url. its allways the same pattern. foo/ before : afterwards.

will /regex/.test(myword) work then?
thx guys!

What language?

You can just match against a list of words like so



Of if you need to capture a specific word you can enclose the regex in brackets which will return the match.

Go to http://rubular.com/ it's meant for ruby but regex is roughly the same for all languages.

I suck at regexes but something like
maybe?

Powershell can do this too.
What else are you trying to do? Do you have a text file that feeds all the url's to you?

Quick dirty and will probably break



It is sure to find whatever is before the colon, since it makes a nice delimiter.

If you post more information maybe I can make it more explicit.

should work

#px"[:alpha:]{\/{2}}[[[word]]+\/]+\/[[[word]]\:[[word]]"