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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·2016-11-17 03:59
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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\A\s* (?: ######################################################################### # Matches against Australian postal addresses # [<floor> <number>] # [<unit type>] [<unit>] <house number> <street name> <street type> # [<anything trailing> ######################################################################### (?:(?P<c_level_type>level|lvl|floor|flr)\s*(?P<c_level_number>\w+),?\s*)? # Level (floor, etc) \s*,?\s* # Optional comma (?:(?P<c_unit_type>[[:alpha:]][\w-']*)?\s*)? # Type (suite, unit, etc) (?:(?P<c_unit_number>[\w\.]*(?!\d))\s*[,\/]*\s*)? # Unit (?P<c_house_number>\pN+[[:alpha:]]?(?:\s*[-\/\pP]\s*\pN+[[:alpha:]]?)*) # House number \s*,?\s* # Optional comma (?P<c_street_name>[\w-\s]*?) # Street name \s+ \b(?P<c_street_type>fire\s*track|right\s*of\s*way|service\s*way|shopping\s*centre|state\s*highway|\w{2,})\b # Street type (?:\s*\R+(?P<c_trailing>.+))? # Trailing data not captured ) \s*\Z
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Description

This will parse the street part of an Australian address and separate it's parts.

It will handle addresses with a level, the word 'unit' or 'suite' unit number street number and the type of street (eg Ave, Dr, etc)

Based on https://regex101.com/r/vO5fY7/5

Submitted by Ian Heggaton pixelated.com.au