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]
Submitted by nitrateag

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Regular Expression
Created·2022-07-10 10:57
Updated·2022-07-10 11:14
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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^(?<numberExpression>(?<numberDice>[0-9]+)(?<gaussExpression>[oO]?(?<gaussDices>[0-9])+(?<gaussModifier>[\+\-])?)?)?[dD](?<faces>[0-9]+)(?<exploding>[¡!]{0,2})(?<modifierExpression>[\+\-](?<modifierValue>[0-9]+))?(?<thresholdExp>:(?<thresholdValue>[0-9]+))?
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Description

  • You can express the required dice-throwing as usual: 1d10, 2d6, 3d8...
  • The first part (dice number) is mandatory. So, notations like "D10" are not computed, and they must be written as 1d10
  • The dice number may be expressed as [number]o[number]. For example: 1o3d10. That will mark to implement a Gauss system, throwing 3 dice but only giving the value of the middle one.
  • If that's the case, it is possible to add a symbol + or - at the end of the dice number value, to mark if whether you want the lowest or the highest value instead.
  • The second part of the dice (the number of sides) may be any integer
  • You can add a ! or a ¡ (or both) at the end of the notated dice to represent exploding and imploding dices
  • In addition, you can express a modifier in the form of a subtraction (-3, for example) or an addition (+2, for example)
  • You can finally add a threshold (:20, for example).
Submitted by Hermes