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Understand regular expressions?

I am trying to understand regular expressions. I am trying to parse data from XML web service using regular expressions. I need your help to understand few regular expressions.

Regular expressions that I need to understand.

1: https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=ac%5C%2Fdc //What this 'ac%5C%2Fdc' regular expression in query means?

2: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/area/?query=%22%C3%8Ele-de-France%22 //What this '%22%C3%8Ele-de-France%22' regular expression in query means?

Solution

  • Those are not regular expressions.

    Check on urlencode() and urldecode() from PHP to see more clearly your url

    https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_php_functions/urlencode/ https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_php_functions/urldecode/

    Then, we can't explain you how works the back-end of this website, but basically we can see that it's just basics contains or equals query

    http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/area/?query=%22Rhone-Alpes%22 Will return all musics with Rhone-Alpes mentioned

    http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/area/?query=Rhone-Alpes Will return all musics with Rhone or Alpes