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·2021-11-23 01:04
Flavor·Python

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(?P<type>deb(?:-src)?) (?:\[(?P<options>.*)\] )?(?P<uri>(?P<protocol>(?:(?:mirror\+)?(?P<local>file|cdrom|copy)|(?P<remote>http|https|ftp|ssh))):(?(remote)//((?:(?!-)[a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,63}(?<!-)\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}))/[a-zA-Z0-1-_\./]+) (?P<suite>[a-z/]+)(?:(?<!/) (?P<components>[a-z]+(?: [a-z]+)*))
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Description

Match a single line inside of an apt sources.list file and return content in named groups.

This regex should take into account many possible variations of a sources.list entry, but by far not all of them.

What it does:

  • recognize most of the protocols supported by apt
  • require the URI to begin with a domain of a remote machine, when using those protocols, which require this
  • support for optional arguments like options and arbitrarily many components
  • case sensitivity for the possibility of the suite containing an exact path, in which case the line mustn't contain any components

That it does not:

  • support spaces inside the URI, which APT also doesn't as far , as I know
  • support uncommon characters in URI and components
  • usage of IP addresses instead of domains
  • split list of options or components into separate groups
  • validity check for options
Submitted by NK308