--- title: "How to match text between double slashes but not url?" description: "How to match text between double slashes but not url?" author: "Anonymous User" published: 2013-10-14 updated: 2013-10-14 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1665/how-to-match-text-between-double-slashes-but-not-url category: "java" tags: ["java"] reading_time: 1 minute --- # How to match text between double slashes but not url? I need to [replace](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81330/cow-antibody-research-in-usa-a-step-ahead-to-replace-plasma-therapy) double slashes in a [wiki](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/239151/why-is-a-wikipedia-page-a-perfect-choice-for-content-marketing) [markup](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/59/xaml-extensible-application-markup-language) with [something else](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1654/can-anybody-say-my-below-code-is-a-variable-function-or-something-else) (double slashes stands for italic [text](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301635/did-people-reinvent-texting-to-express-the-full-range-of-emotions)). How can I [match](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159713/regex-match-attribute-in-an-html-code) italic text, without URLs? This [regexp](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/160351/explain-the-significance-of-metacharacters-in-regexp-in-javascript) is for a text where are no URLs: //(.*?)// [Problem](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81399/tackling-the-problem-of-unemployment-during-corona-pandemic) appears when there is a text like: ``` //italic text// and this is only http://some.url/somewhere and this is //another italic text// yeah ``` I'm using Java. ## Replies ### Reply by Anonymous User Hey Ida Use this Code: ``` (?