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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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Created·2018-06-22 10:47
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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(View original content:.*$)|((?:Contacts|contact:).*$)|(?:^SOURCE\s?(?:.*){0,20}"?$)|(?:(?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sept|Oct|Nov|Dec)\.? ?(?:\d+){1,2},? ?\d{4} ?\d{1,2}:\d{1,2} ?(?:AM|PM)? (?:\w{3}))|(Reads: [\d,]+)|(^Click on \w for \w+$)|(\[Video\])|(?:Advertisement)|("?For more information ?(?:about \w+)?,?\s?(?:(?:please)?\s?visit).*)|(For more information:.*)|(?:View original content with multimedia:? ?(?:https?|www).*)|(?:\(Bloomberg\))|("?To contact the reporter on this story:? ?.*)|(?:Bloomberg$)|(?:\[CO\] ?.*$)|(?:For complete information,? please visit:?.*$)|\((?:(?=(\w+)? ?Photo)[^()]*)\)|(?:(?=(\w+)? ?Video)[^()]*)\)|(?:^Copyright ?\d{4}.*)|(?:[—–])|(?:Press release)|(?:Read more from.*)|(?:Topics:.*)|(?:SEE ALSO:.*)|(?:^copyright .*$)|(?:All rights reserved.*)|(?:Photo credit:?.*)|(?:(?:January|Febuary|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December),? ?\d{2},? [\d:]{1,4} ?(?:am|pm|a\.m\.?|p\.m\.?):?)|(By:.*)|(?:View source version.*$)|(?:\* Trademark and.*)|(?:^Irish Independent"?$)|(?:^Posted$)|(?:^(?:January|Febuary|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) ?\d{1,2}, ?\d{2,4})|(?:^CLICK HERE to.*$)|(?:[\w\.-]+@\w+\.[\w]{3})|(?:Follow ?@[\w\.]+)|([\d-]{10,12})|(?:\(#\d+\))(?# remove this for twitter)|(?:(?:Phone|Email):)
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