I am writing a web application in golang. I am using regular expression to validate the URL. But I am not able to validate image (abc.png) in the URL validation.
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^/$|/(home|about|badge)/(|[a-zA-Z0-9]+)$")
The above URL takes /home/
, /about/
but could not make for /abc.png
. I mean .
itself not working
I tried the following regex, but it didn't help
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^/$|/(home|about|badge|.)/(|[a-zA-Z0-9]+)$")
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^/$|/(home|about|badge)(/|.)(|[a-zA-Z0-9]+)$")
And I am trying to match http://localhost:8080/badge.png
Could anyone please help me on this?
It appears
^/$|^(?:/(home|about|badge))?/((?:badge|abc)\.png|[a-zA-Z0-9]*)$
should work for you. See the regex demo.
The pattern breakdown:
^/$
- a /
as a whole string|
- or...^
- start of string(?:/(home|about|badge))?
- optional sequence of /
+ either home
, or about
or badge
/
- a /
symbol followed with((?:badge|abc)\.png|[a-zA-Z0-9]*)
- Group 1 capturing:(?:badge|abc)\.png
- badge
or abc
followed with .png
|
- or...[a-zA-Z0-9]*
- zero or more alphanumerics$
- end of stringAnd here is the Go playground demo.
package main
import "fmt"
import "regexp"
func main() {
//var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^/((home|about)(/[a-zA-Z0-9]*)?|[a-zA-Z0-9]+\\.[a-z]+)?$")
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile(`^/$|^(?:/(home|about|badge))?/((?:badge|abc)\.png|[a-zA-Z0-9]*)$`)
fmt.Println(validPath.MatchString("/"), validPath.MatchString("/home/"), validPath.MatchString("/about/"), validPath.MatchString("/home/13jia0"), validPath.MatchString("/about/1jnmjan"), validPath.MatchString("/badge.png"), validPath.MatchString("/abc.png"))
fmt.Println(validPath.MatchString("/nope/"), validPath.MatchString("/invalid.png"), validPath.MatchString("/test/test"))
m := validPath.FindStringSubmatch("/about/global")
fmt.Println("validate() :: URL validation path m[1] : ", m[1])
fmt.Println("validate() :: URL validation path m[2] : ", m[2])
if m == nil || m[2] != "global" {
fmt.Println("Not valid")
}
}
What you are looking for is the following (based off the example paths you posted):
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^/((home|about)(/[a-zA-Z0-9]*)?|[a-zA-Z0-9]+\\.[a-z]+)?$")
You can validate with the following Regex:
var validPath = regexp.MustCompile("^\/(home|about|badge)\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+[.][a-z]+$")
Ps: I made a flexible Regex, so it accepts a lot of formats of images: png
, jpg
, jpeg
and so on..
You can test it here: Regex