Regular Expression to collect everything after the last /

This matches at least one of (anything not a slash) followed by end of the string:

[^/]+$

Notes:

• No parens because it doesn't need any groups - result goes into group 0 (the match itself).
• Uses + (instead of *) so that if the last character is a slash it fails to match (rather than matching empty string).

But, most likely a faster and simpler solution is to use your language's built-in string list processing functionality - i.e. ListLast( Text , '/' ) or equivalent function.

For PHP, the closest function is strrchr which works like this:

strrchr( Text , '/' )

This includes the slash in the results - as per Teddy's comment below, you can remove the slash with substr:

substr( strrchr( Text, '/' ), 1 );

You can match this:

.*/

and replace with your text.

DEMO

For this PHP regex:

$str = preg_replace ( '{(.)1+}', '$1', $str );
$str = preg_replace ( '{[ '-_()]}', '', $str )

In Java:

str = str.replaceAll("(.)\1+", "$1");
str = str.replaceAll("[ '-_\(\)]", "");

I suggest you to provide your input and expected output then you will get better answers on how it can be done in PHP and/or Java.