import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
class PatternMatcher {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] urls = {"https://example.com/articles/0ba08991-d85d-4236-8820-d49d588c26bf",
"https://example.com/articles/6ae9ef81-40a6-4528-81f4-d690ab08aacd/comment",
"https://example.com/articles/e727c2c9-3434-4572-8c9c-a2bd81c74356/publish",
"https://example.com/artifcles/"
};
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".*/articles/(?<guid>[0-9a-f-]+)(?:/(?<method>.*))?$");
System.out.println("p: [" + p + "]\n");
for (String url : urls) {
Matcher m = p.matcher(url);
System.out.print("url: [" + url + "] ");
if (m.matches()) {
System.out.println("✓");
System.out.println("\tguid: [" + m.group("guid") + "]");
System.out.println("\tmethod: [" + m.group("method") + "]");
System.out.println("\tThis is" +
("comment".equals(m.group("method")) ? " " : " not ") +
"a comment");
} else {
System.out.println("(does not match)");
}
}
}
}
