RegExp matching url

Question

I have the current url:

ristoranti/location/latvia/riga/other-tag

I need a regexp that do not get the url if has the location segment

Here what I tried:

ristoranti/(?!location$).*)?(.+?)/(.+?)

Example url I need to get:

ristoranti/latvia/riga/other-tag

I'm not so good with regexp but if I'm right the first segment shoulg get all but location, am I wrong?

Possible duplicate of [What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161738/what-is-the-best-regular-expression-to-check-if-a-string-is-a-valid-url) — Yann Chabot, Nov 15 '16 at 15:18
You need to remove `/location/` from the string using a simple string operation. Or use two capturing groups, like `(ristoranti/)[^/]*/(.+?)` and replace with `$1$2`. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Nov 15 '16 at 15:19
Unclear question. Your regex contains `location`, but the result what you want contains `latvia`. Something went wrong. I suggest to providing some cases to match with the regex and the ouput what you want. — Tân, Nov 15 '16 at 15:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '16 at 15:29

Problem is presence of $ in your negative lookahead that will fail to stop ristoranti/location/latvia/riga/other-tag from matching because your URL is not really ending with location. You should replace it by

(?!location/)

which will fail the match when URL has location/ ahead.

Also use ^ at the start. So your final regex should be:

^ristoranti/(?!location/)([^/]*)/([^/]*)/(.*)

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