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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·2026-07-01 16:48
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((?![^<>]*>)(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:H[eogsf]?|L[iavru]|B[eahkri]?|C[arofmusenld]?|N[eiahopdb]?|O[sg]?|F[rlem]?|M[godtcn]|A[lrsgutmc]|S[icerngmb]?|P[uabotmrd]?|Kr?|T[icebmsalh]|V|Z[nr]|G[ade]|R[buhenagf]|Yb?|I[nr]?|Xe|E[urs]|D[ysb]|W|U)|[()\\[\\]])+(?:(?:(?:[₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉][₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉]*|[¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹][⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹]*|\\u208[1-9](?:\\u208[0-9])*|(?:\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])(?:\\u2070|\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])*|&#(?:0*832[1-9]|[xX]0*208[1-9]);(?:&#(?:0*832[0-9]|[xX]0*208[0-9]);)*|&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:[bB][239]|207[4-9]));(?:&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|8304|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:2070|[bB][239]|207[4-9]));)*|<su[bp]>[1-9][0-9]*<\/su[bp]>)|[1-9][0-9]*))*)){2,}|(?:(?:H[eogsf]?|L[iavru]|B[eahkri]?|C[arofmusenld]?|N[eiahopdb]?|O[sg]?|F[rlem]?|M[godtcn]|A[lrsgutmc]|S[icerngmb]?|P[uabotmrd]?|Kr?|T[icebmsalh]|V|Z[nr]|G[ade]|R[buhenagf]|Yb?|I[nr]?|Xe|E[urs]|D[ysb]|W|U)|[()\\[\\]])+(?:[₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉][₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉]*|[¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹][⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹]*|\\u208[1-9](?:\\u208[0-9])*|(?:\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])(?:\\u2070|\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])*|&#(?:0*832[1-9]|[xX]0*208[1-9]);(?:&#(?:0*832[0-9]|[xX]0*208[0-9]);)*|&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:[bB][239]|207[4-9]));(?:&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|8304|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:2070|[bB][239]|207[4-9]));)*|<su[bp]>[1-9][0-9]*<\/su[bp]>))(?:[+-](?![A-Za-z0-9]))?(?:(?:\\s*[·•‧∙⋅・・*]\\s*|\\.(?=[A-Za-z(\\[]))(?:(?:(?:[₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉][₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉]*|[¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹][⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹]*|\\u208[1-9](?:\\u208[0-9])*|(?:\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])(?:\\u2070|\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])*|&#(?:0*832[1-9]|[xX]0*208[1-9]);(?:&#(?:0*832[0-9]|[xX]0*208[0-9]);)*|&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:[bB][239]|207[4-9]));(?:&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|8304|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:2070|[bB][239]|207[4-9]));)*|<su[bp]>[1-9][0-9]*<\/su[bp]>)|[1-9][0-9]*(?:\/[1-9][0-9]*)?|[xn]))?(?:(?:(?:H[eogsf]?|L[iavru]|B[eahkri]?|C[arofmusenld]?|N[eiahopdb]?|O[sg]?|F[rlem]?|M[godtcn]|A[lrsgutmc]|S[icerngmb]?|P[uabotmrd]?|Kr?|T[icebmsalh]|V|Z[nr]|G[ade]|R[buhenagf]|Yb?|I[nr]?|Xe|E[urs]|D[ysb]|W|U)|[()\\[\\]])+(?:(?:(?:[₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉][₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉]*|[¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹][⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹]*|\\u208[1-9](?:\\u208[0-9])*|(?:\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])(?:\\u2070|\\u00[bB][239]|\\u207[4-9])*|&#(?:0*832[1-9]|[xX]0*208[1-9]);(?:&#(?:0*832[0-9]|[xX]0*208[0-9]);)*|&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:[bB][239]|207[4-9]));(?:&#(?:0*(?:178|179|185|8304|830[89]|831[0-3])|[xX]0*(?:2070|[bB][239]|207[4-9]));)*|<su[bp]>[1-9][0-9]*<\/su[bp]>)|[1-9][0-9]*))*)+(?:[+-](?![A-Za-z0-9]))?)*)
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Parses for formulas using glyph, unicode or sub/sup tags for the subscripts. TS script here (with screenshot)

Submitted by Justin Hyland