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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·2024-06-03 10:25
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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^[a-zA-Z0-9]{3,8}-\d{1}$
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gm
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Description

Pattern to identify LOINC codes, derived from the description in LOINC.org (June 2024):-

LOINC codes have a fixed length field of 7 characters within the LOINC database. Current codes are from 3-7 characters long. If you are currently building a system to include LOINC codes, we advise allowing up to 10 characters (or at least 8 characters) to allow for further expansion. When the LOINC database contains 100,000 different LOINC records, the fixed length field will need to expand to 8 characters. The last digit of the LOINC code is a check digit and is always preceded by a hyphen (dash). The hyphen, as well as all the numbers, is part of the LOINC and must be included. The check digit is always a number form 0-9 and serves to help avoid errors in transcription of the code. Current licensing agreement for use of LOINC codes requires you to send the complete LOINC code.

Submitted by Richard Baxter