Re^2: dir match, dir may or may not appear

Thanks,

I meant "(slash followed by anything except slash) to occur 0 or 1 time"

Basically 0 or 1 dir can appear inbetween /usr and bin/

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Re^3: dir match, dir may or may not appear by hippo (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2016 at 10:34 UTC
The "?" quantifier means to match 0 or 1 times as specified in the "Quantifiers" section of perlre. Therefore your pattern to match this could be simply `(/[^/]+)?` which is similar to QuillMeantTen's approach above.	[reply] [d/l]