Trying to find the regex for pretty URLs

Question

I have a website structure like this:

/docs/one_of_the_resources/one-of-the-resources.html
/docs/a_complete_different_resource/a-complete-different-resource.html

I want to get rid of all sub-folders in the url and get this:

/one-of-the-resources.html
/a-complete-different-resource.html

Sub-folders should not be affected:

/docs/one_of_the_resources/assets/*

The folder name is always the same as the html file just dashes are swapped with underline and of course there is no suffix.

I'm using grunt-contrib-rewrite and grunt-connect.

Can't wrap my head around it. Is this even possible?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '15 at 11:18

You can use a negated character class

/\/[^/]+$/

[^/]+ Matches anything other than a /. The quantifier + ensures one or more characters.
$ Anchors the regex at the end of the string.

Example

string = "/docs/one_of_the_resources/one-of-the-resources.html";
console.log(string.match(/\/[^/]+$/)[0]);
// => one-of-the-resources.html

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