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]
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Regular Expression
Created·2017-07-20 16:07
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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(?:(AT)\s*(U[0-9]{8}))|(?:(BE)\s*(0?[0-9]{*}))|(?:(CZ)\s*([0-9]{8,10}))|(?:(DE)\s*([0-9]{9}))|(?:(CY)\s*([0-9]{8}[A-Z]))|(?:(DK)\s*([0-9]{8}))|(?:(EE)\s*([0-9]{9}))|(?:(GR)\s*([0-9]{9}))|(?:(ES)\s*([0-9A-Z][0-9]{7}[0-9A-Z]))|(?:(FI)\s*([0-9]{8}))|(?:(FR)\s*([0-9A-Z]{2}[0-9]{9}))|(?:(GB)\s*(([0-9]{9}|[0-9]{12})~(GD|HA)[0-9]{3}))|(?:(HU)\s*([0-9]{8}))|(?:(IE)\s*([0-9][A-Z0-9\\+\\*][0-9]{5}[A-Z]))|(?:(IT)\s*([0-9]{11}))|(?:(LT)\s*(([0-9]{9}|[0-9]{12})))|(?:(LU)\s*([0-9]{8}))|(?:(LV)\s*([0-9]{11}))|(?:(MT)\s*([0-9]{8}))|(?:(NL)\s*([0-9]{9}B[0-9]{2}))|(?:(PL)\s*([0-9]{10}))|(?:(PT)\s*([0-9]{9}))|(?:(SE)\s*([0-9]{12}))|(?:(SI)\s*([0-9]{8}))|(?:(SK)\s*([0-9]{10}))|(?:\D|^)([0-9]{11})(?:\D|$)|(?:(CHE)(-|\s*)([0-9]{3}\.[0-9]{3}\.[0-9]{3}))
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