Regular Expressions 101

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Get path from any text

Created·2023-01-31 14:38
Updated·2023-07-23 20:17
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)
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Get path (windows style) from any type of text (error message, e-mail corps ...), quoted or not. THIS IS THE SINGLE LINE VERSION ! If you want understand how it work or edit it, go https://regex101.com/r/7o2fyy Relative path are not supported The goal is to catch what "Look like" a path. See the limitations UNC path and prefix path like //./], [//?/] or [//./UNC/] are allowed some url path like [file:///C:/] or [file://] are allowed Catch path quoted with ["] and [']. But these quotes are include with the catch Quoted path is not concerned by limitations Limitations : (only unquoted path) [dot] and [space] is allowed, but not in a row [dot+space] or [space+dot at end of file name isn't catched INSIDE A NAME FILE (or last directory if it is a path to a directory) : [comma] is not supported (it stop the catch) after a first [dot], any [space] stop the catch after a [space], catch is stoped if next character is not a [letter], [digit] or [-] so, double [space] stop the catch Compatibility compatible PCRE, PCRE2 AutoHotkey : don't forget to escape "%" in "`%" /!\ Powershell and .Net /!\\ : this regex need some modification to be interpreted by powershell. You have to replace each (?&CapturGroupName) by \k. Use this powershell code to do this replacement : ` $powershellRegex = @' [Put here the regex to replace (?&CapturGroupName) with \k] '@ -replace '\(\?&(\w+)\)', '\k' ` This example code must return : [Put here the regex to replace \k with \k]
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Regular Expression
Created·2023-10-06 07:33
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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\b(ATU\d{8}|BE[01]\d{9}|BG\d{9,10}|CY\d{8}[LX]|CZ\d{8,10}|DE\d{9}|DK\d{8}|EE\d{9}|EL\d{9}|ES[\dA-Z]\d{7}[\dA-Z]|FI\d{8}|FR[\dA-Z]{2}\d{9}|HR\d{11}|HU\d{8}|IE\d{7}[A-Z]{2}|IT\d{11}|LT(\d{9}|\d{12})|LU\d{8}|LV\d{11}|MT\d{8}|NL\d{9}B\d{2}|PL\d{10}|PT\d{9}|RO\d{2,10}|SE\d{12}|SI\d{8}|SK\d{10})\b
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Based on this expression and updated Oct 2023 using wikipedia

Submitted by Henk-Jan @ Cargoplot