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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]
Submitted by nitrateag

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Regular Expression
Created·2026-01-20 02:14
Updated·2026-01-20 02:28
Flavor·Python

r"
(?P<image>(?P<repo>(?:(?P<registry>(?P<host>(?:[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]|[a-zA-Z0-9])(?:[.](?:[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]|[a-zA-Z0-9]))+|(?:\[[a-fA-F0-9:]+\]))(?:[:](?P<port>[0-9]+))?)[/])?(?P<name>(?:[a-z0-9]+(?:(?:[._]|__|[-]*)[a-z0-9]+)*)(?:[/][a-z0-9]+(?:(?:[._]|__|[-]*)[a-z0-9]+)*)*))(?P<reference>(?:[:](?P<tag>[\w][\w.-]{0,127}))?(?:(?(tag)$|[@](?P<digest>[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*(?:[-_+.][A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)*[:][A-Fa-f0-9]{32,})))?))
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Description

This is a Python RE for matching different parts and combinations of various docker/container image references, as compatible with docker pull etc.

Parts / Capture Groups

image:  # whole image
  repo:  # everything but the tag/digest
    registry:  # host+port
      host:
      port:
    name:  # path within registry
  reference:  # tag or digest (with `:` or `@`; I haven't bothered to figure out how to strip that yet)
    tag:
    digest:

If it matches, it should match image, repo, and name at the very least.

Submitted by neal-ian