Regular Expression to collect everything after the last /

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This matches at least one of (anything not a slash) followed by end of the string:

[^/]+$

Notes:

  • No parens because it doesn’t need any groups – result goes into group 0 (the match itself).
  • Uses + (instead of *) so that if the last character is a slash it fails to match (rather than matching empty string).

But, most likely a faster and simpler solution is to use your language’s built-in string list processing functionality – i.e. ListLast( Text , "https://stackoverflow.com/" ) or equivalent function.

For PHP, the closest function is strrchr which works like this:

strrchr( Text , "https://stackoverflow.com/" )

This includes the slash in the results – as per Teddy’s comment below, you can remove the slash with substr:

substr( strrchr( Text, "https://stackoverflow.com/" ), 1 );

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