I have a .csv file of strings containing paths to certain files. I want to capture all filenames from that file.

Example data:

/second/path/to/something-4-5_4.pdf,
/path/to/certain/file.pdf
randomnoise,

What I want to capture: all occurences of words after slash and ending with .pdf, in this case:

something-4-5_4.pdf
file.pdf

What I tried:

\/(.*)\.pdf

Demo

This unfortunately catches everything between / and .pdf, the whole path. I have trouble coming up with condition for it to catch the part I want

CodePudding user response：

The point is that the . pattern matches any char other than line break chars. You need to restrict the pattern to only match any chars other than a slash.

There are several solutions, including

\/([^\/]*\.pdf)
[^\/]*\.pdf
[^\/]*\.pdf$

See the regex demo. Details:

• \/([^\/]*\.pdf) matches /, then captures one or more chars other than / as many as possible and then .pdf into Group 1
• [^\/]*\.pdf just matches one or more chars other than / as many as possible and then .pdf
• [^\/]*\.pdf$ works the same as above, but also makes sure the pdf is at the end of string.