Webflags: g

URL Path Segment

Match individual `/segment` parts of a URL path, capturing each one.

Available in

JavaScript / ECMAScript code

jsJavaScript

const re = new RegExp("\\/([^\\/?#\\s]+)", "g");
const input = "/users/42/posts?page=2";
const matches = [...input.matchAll(re)];
console.log(matches.map(m => m[0]));

Uses `String.prototype.matchAll` for global iteration (Node 12+ / all modern browsers).

Python (re) code

pyPython

import re

pattern = re.compile(r"\/([^\/?#\s]+)")
input_text = "/users/42/posts?page=2"
for m in pattern.finditer(input_text):
    print(m.group(0))

Stdlib `re` module — no third-party dependency. Works on Python 3.6+.

Go (RE2) code

goGo

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"regexp"
)

func main() {
	re := regexp.MustCompile(`\/([^\/?#\s]+)`)
	input := `/users/42/posts?page=2`
	for _, match := range re.FindAllString(input, -1) {
		fmt.Println(match)
	}
}

Uses `regexp.MustCompile` (panics on bad patterns at startup) and `FindAllString` for all matches.

Pattern

regexengine-agnostic

\/([^\/?#\s]+)   (flags: g)

Raw source: \/([^\/?#\s]+)

How it works

\/ matches the literal slash. ([^\/?#\s]+) captures one or more characters that aren't a slash, question mark, hash, or whitespace — i.e. one path segment. Useful for breaking apart a URL into its component pieces.