Regex Exclude Part Of String On Capture C#

Question

I am trying to do a url rewrite but can't capture the correct action for two scenarios. The first is if the action is " scheduletable ", only capture " schedule " in " action ", otherwise capture the whole thing " pools ". My regex keeps including the " table " in the " action "

^/events/(?<action>.*)(?table)?/(?<eventid>\d*).*$

The original URL

/events/scheduletable/39?layout=time&type=all
/events/pools/39

Answer 1

Use:

^/events/(?<action>.*?)(?:table)?/(?<eventid>\d*).*$

And use $1 and $2 in the replacement - or your group names even.

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Answer 2

You had a ? in the wrong place. (?table) doesn't make sense, and your * on action needs to be non-greedy ( .*? instead of .* ). Try this;

^/events/(?<action>.*?)(table)?/(?<eventid>\d*).*$

Answer 3

Consider the following Regex...

(?<=events/).*?(?=(table|/))

Good Luck!