Regular expression to retrieve part of a URL

Question

Today I am lazy and do not want to understand this. I need a regular expression to match "jeremy.miller" and "scottgu" from the following inputs:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2009/08/26/talking-about-storyteller-and-executable-requirements-on-elegant-code.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/25/clean-web-config-files-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

Ideas?

Edit

Chris Lutz did an excellent job with the requirements outlined above. What if it was input, so you could not use the “archive” in the regular expression?

 http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/
 http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

Answer 1

Will this be what you are looking for?

'/([^/]+)/archive/'

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'/([^/]+)/$'

jeremy.miller, scottgu, , URL-, "" URL- (.. scottgu2), /:

'/(jeremy\.miller|scottgu)/'

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'http://[^/]+/(?:blogs/)?([^/]+)/'

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Answer 2

:

/\/([\w\.]+)\/archive/