regex for URL segment identification

[GKWelding]

I have the following code in my htaccess file...

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/clinics/dashboard/.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]

 

This works fine when I got to http://www.{myurl}.com/clinics/dashboard/ and redirects me to the correct controller. However, if I do http://www.{myurl}.com/clinics/dashboard then I get a 404 error. Regex isn't my strong point at all, so does anybody know how I could add a regular expression to look to see if the character after dashboard is either a / or whether it's the end of the string. I know that to find out if the next character isn't a / or a . is...

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/clinics/dashboard[^/\.].*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]

 

and that to match a / at the end of the url string is...

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/clinics/dashboard[/$].*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]

 

However, my limited regex knowledge has failed me and I can't seem to modify this to do match either a / at the end of the string or nothing at all, and trust me, I've googled my little heart out...

 

Thanks in advance for your replies, they will be much appreciated.

[GKWelding]

managed to solve it myself by doing the following...

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/clinics/(dashboard)([a-zA-Z0-9_-\.]+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/frontend/index/$1$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/clinics/dashboard.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1[L]

 

The first rewrite condition determines whether alphanumeric character,  _, - or a . is the first character after the url. If it is then redirect to the first function. If it isn't then assume the url is either url.com/dashboard or url.com/dashboard/ rather than url.com/dashboard.html or url.com/dashboard-view.html.