Regex for example.com (not www.example.com)

I had a failing test that indicated that I had some sample code in my source.

So, I needed a nifty regex to find it.

Failing Test

A test failed with the following message:

Authenticate User and get his Role
cookies: [ 'name=undefined; Domain=.example.com; Path=/admin; Secure',
  'session=7bi4j6U2VYleeAC_kLseiA.IBKutIFH6iuag66-hrWwyVf175J6NaJICEkgMLC1gl9OrWpvpNTpv-SQ3QJCJe_VfB4MBwjIkpwNgwEM8R99qp6qNm0CXYqbdjaq6_R7PB-O2Vm-cFavjZEohzkNVVnYjlu3BDWFU17y4ENZaMNADXiZ150Pf_nGvdoVZmNFiZh2ysiIk0eRmSOiLEJtkWyj84btuBew0ylUKLn0ywRlnFBllKm4X8_GrCaWxRCFG6iS9T76r_X9PDb9BQKC6eZB2hQRKsykidJ3OY-G5PC_GJwS_LGlgYwP25-0BP8V1524LCvEZ3w5qZBX2kmCxrpwVA4ycls1F4fz3XSDLCyOnxO9rYpP2JYwjfYhkgV71-JNBogeVdVDL_JqWDTjZJZLDPrOp4ZmESrh6kI3n_f6zuxaWvuYK-c31_icvWm_g1eXmpKo4CVB0-Vv6EYuDuh5tS9y4yybr9mMrnZaSwHpyTp6YBsd9i0H6cyHZ7YiyIQCVa30We0iTa335arKG2zG.1437151277357.3600000.UePJmiwfcRyceI0eQ32BbXyekHbzvQ1tk5tP2_8O7T8; path=/; expires=Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:41:18 GMT; httponly' ]

Searching for ".example.com"

Searching for ".example.com" yielded too many results because there were a lot of "www.example.com" strings found.

Magic Regex

This regular expression did the trick:

^(?=.*example.com)(?!.*www).*

It says, "Give me everything that matches "example.com" but does not also contain "www".



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