Regex to exclude set of words with achieving this format

Question

(I can't imagine how this question is off-topic, it is only asking about a regex just like a dozen questions on stackoverflow !!!!!!!!!)

In order to find a solution to the question User-friendly URLs for user profiles in YaF one way of solving it is by finding a regex to capture anything else other than the predefined list of controllers,

So I need a regex to match this /notAcontroller where notAcontroller is not one of my predefined controllers like in this array [index, home, profile]

Example:

For these controllers [index, home, profile]

I need to match for strings like these: /Joan, /abdelhady/photos

but not these: /profile/get/id/222, /index or even /

What is the language? And what have you attempt to solve the problem? — nhahtdh, Sep 19 '13 at 12:30
PHP, & I'm trying to solve the problem I've listed before in this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18875717/user-friendly-urls-for-user-profiles-in-yaf — AbdelHady, Sep 19 '13 at 12:45
I can't imagine how this question is off-topic, it is only asking about a regex just like a DOZEN questions here on stackoverflow !!! anyway, I edited it to further explain my problem — AbdelHady, Sep 22 '13 at 11:42

Bohemian · Answer 1 · 2014-03-27T12:00:30.640

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Use a negative look ahead anchored to start:

^/(?!(index|home|profile)$).*

See a live demo

edited Mar 27 '14 at 12:00

answered Sep 19 '13 at 13:11

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Thanks for the response. It can exclude `/profile` which is desired, but it can't exclude `profile/get/id/222` or `/` as in the question – AbdelHady Sep 19 '13 at 14:15
Sure it works. Click "live demo". – Bohemian Sep 19 '13 at 14:31
`^(\/(index|home|profile).*|\/$)` works like you want I think. http://rubular.com/r/OvwlJL3NnT – Christoph Diegelmann Sep 19 '13 at 14:36
My previous comment is in your demo, the regex excluded `/index' which is right, but it fails to exclude other 2 which is needed also – AbdelHady Sep 19 '13 at 14:36
@Christoph your regex is doing almost the exact opposite to what I want, I'm sorry if you found the question not clear enough, I'll try to enhance the question wording – AbdelHady Sep 19 '13 at 14:40
where's your problem? `if(preg_match() === false)` ?! – Christoph Diegelmann Sep 19 '13 at 14:43
Sorry, but I have to pass the regex to a routing rule as is, to be used by the rule – AbdelHady Sep 19 '13 at 14:49

Regex to exclude set of words with achieving this format

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