Why doesn't this RedirectMatch work?

[wwday3]

I've been experimenting a bit with RedirectMatch. I've successfully redirected a number of Blogger blog posts to their equivalent Wordpress posts. (And, I successfully used the "archive" pattern mentioned in another post). But, the following doesn't seem to work, and I'm not sure why:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/search/label/(.+) http://domain.com/category/$1/

I also tried these variations

RedirectMatch 301 ^/search/label/(.+)$ http://domain.com/category/$1/
RedirectMatch 301 ^/search/label/(.*) http://domain.com/category/$1/

It's like the incoming URL string never terminates. When I type in the search/label/whatever followed by a single '/', it works (but I get a double '//' in the resolved URL). If I don't add the '/', I get a 404 error.

Help, please?

[richardk]

.+ and .* match everything, including any trailing slashes. Try

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RedirectMatch 301 ^/search/label/(.*[^/])/?$ http://domain.com/category/$1/