You got it right, except for the negated character class. Because the metacharacter "." is meaningless inside a character class (because "." and [.] would be the same thing) the period means a literal period inside a character class. So the regex is actually: 

\.    # literal period
    (    # start capture
        [^.]   # any character that's not a period
            +    # one or more of them
    )    # stop capture
$    # end of line

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This guarantees that you'll get the last chunk of non-periods at the end of URL... but beware because like I said "http://www.yahoo.com" will match "com", and "http://www.somewhere.com/home/" will match "com/home/".

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex to match file extension in URL by Trimbach
in thread Regex to match file extension in URL by Amoe

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