I want to get the handle out of a YouTube channel url.
The url usually like this:
https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelHandle
I want to get only the handle, so I come up with this regex : /(?<=\/@).*.(?=\/|$|)/
My problem is that it stops at the end of the url, but it doesn't stop at /
How to stop either at / or string end?
You have an extra | in your alternatives at the end, so the lookahead matches an empty string anywhere.
You should also use a non-greedy quantifier so it stops at either / or the end of the string, whichever comes first. A greedy quantifier will keep going until the last match of the lookahead.
/(?<=\/@).+?(?=\/|$)/
But a simpler way is just to match a sequence of characters not including /:
/(?<=\/@)[^/]+/
