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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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Regular Expression
Created·2025-04-29 17:11
Updated·2025-04-29 17:17
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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^((([1-9])|([0][1-9])|([1-2]\d)|([3][01]))\.(([1-9])|([0][1-9])|([1][012]))\.\d{4})$
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Description

Initial date format: DD.MM.YYYY. Use additional user code to check if new Date(year, month, day) equal to initial input day.month.year

Script (typescript):

public static IsDateValid(date: string) {
  // check format DD.MM.YYYY, example good input, but invalid date '29.04.2025'
  if (!/^((([1-9])|([0][1-9])|([1-2]\d)|([3][01]))\.(([1-9])|([0][1-9])|([1][012]))\.\d{4})$/.test(date)) {
    return false;
  }

  let digits = date.split('.');

  // just to make sure if first step failed (can be removed)
  if (digits.length !== 3) {
    return false;
  }

  let year: number = Number.parseInt(digits[2]);
  let monthIdx: number = Number.parseInt(digits[1]) - 1;
  let day: number = Number.parseInt(digits[0]);

  // new Date will give '01.05.2025', instead of '29.04.2025'
  let testDate = new Date(year, monthIdx, day);
  if (!(testDate.getFullYear() === year && testDate.getMonth() === monthIdx && testDate.getDate() === 
day)) {
    console.log(`${testDate.getFullYear()}=${year} && ${testDate.getMonth()}=${monthIdx} && ${testDate.getDate()}=${day}`);
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}
Submitted by anonymous