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Fike

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:28 AM (#1)

Help with regex?

I'm making a regex to match and group different parts of an iTunes link (Quinn helped me with a lot of it). Here it is:

^((http|https)://(itunes\.apple\.com))(\S+)/id(\d+)/*

That groups the different parts fine, but it doesn't seem to actually match it. Try testing it with these URLs:

http://itunes.apple....d343200656?mt=8

http://itunes.apple....d343200656?mt=8

.

Could someone tell me why it doesn't match them?

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:34 AM (#2)

On http://regexpal.com/ it seems to match perfectly, so I guess it's the way you're using the regex that's causing the problem. What's the piece of code where you use it?

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:52 AM (#3)

Koen, on 25 June 2012 - 10:34 AM, said:

On http://regexpal.com/ it seems to match perfectly, so I guess it's the way you're using the regex that's causing the problem. What's the piece of code where you use it?

I used a different regex testing site, hmm. I'm using it in JavaScript. I'll try it out now.

Yeah, works now.