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4 upvotes, 5 downvotes (score 18.9%) (You must be signed in to vote)
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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
anonymous
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10 years ago
2013-07-20 19:30
3
65 upvotes, 62 downvotes (score 42.6%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Match quoted strings, ignoring escaped quotes
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches single or double quoted strings, and ignores backslash-escaped quotes within the string.
Submitted by
Maddingue
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10 years ago
2013-06-26 14:28
5
9 upvotes, 4 downvotes (score 42.4%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Repair unquoted HTML attribute values
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Usually MSWord HTML exports
Submitted by
Ka.
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10 years ago
2013-06-21 16:45
8
23 upvotes, 15 downvotes (score 44.7%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Validate Base64 single-line string
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
ka.
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11 years ago
2013-05-31 00:35
18
310 upvotes, 292 downvotes (score 52.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Date: DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss
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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate and capture dateTime parts, includes validation for leap years, range 1000-2999. Fixed bug
Submitted by
Ka.
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11 years ago
2013-05-17 13:07
0
7 upvotes, 7 downvotes (score 26.8%) (You must be signed in to vote)
DateTime: DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate and Capture (in 1000-2999 range) Leap-Year Correct
Submitted by
anonymous
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11 years ago
2013-05-13 23:26
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6 upvotes, 24 downvotes (score 9.5%) (You must be signed in to vote)
dd-mm-YYYY HH:mm:ss (year range 1000-2999)
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate Gregorian calendar dates that contain 24-hour times. This will also correctly match the Feb 29 date when it falls on a valid leap year. Leap years occur every 4 years, with one exception: when a year is evenly divisible by 100 but not evenly divisible by 400, the year will not be a leap ye...
Submitted by
Ka.
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11 years ago
2013-05-13 22:48
(Last modified 4 months ago)
2023-07-24 16:28
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3 upvotes, 1 downvotes (score 30.1%) (You must be signed in to vote)
js function test
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
anonymous
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11 years ago
2013-04-09 03:26
4
5 upvotes, 1 downvotes (score 43.6%) (You must be signed in to vote)
1st TSV
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
DynV
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11 years ago
2013-04-08 22:00
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4 upvotes, 3 downvotes (score 25%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Table Purgatory
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
A regex to find all nowrap text occurrences and name all the groups involved in preparation for a replacement pass
Submitted by
Joe Hacobian
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11 years ago
2013-03-28 03:07
4
8 upvotes, 4 downvotes (score 39.1%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Strip out domain extensions except for Microsoft .net technologies.
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
anonymous
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11 years ago
2013-03-25 17:26
4
4 upvotes, 0 downvotes (score 51%) (You must be signed in to vote)
For Auto RTFs
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
Dan Bloomquist
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11 years ago
2013-03-22 03:32
4
15 upvotes, 11 downvotes (score 38.9%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Strip multi-line (star) comments from JavaScript, while leaving any CDATA sections intact.
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regular expression removes multi-line (star) comments from JavaScript, while leaving any CDATA sections intact. Use the global (g) modifier to match them all (if you plan to use PHP's preg_replace, the g modifier is not necessary), and use the (s) modifier to make dots match newlines (this will...
Submitted by
Dane MacMillan
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11 years ago
2013-03-21 20:42
2
2 upvotes, 0 downvotes (score 34.2%) (You must be signed in to vote)
MIME type verification
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#section-5.1
Submitted by
Erin Millard
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11 years ago
2013-03-15 01:41
1
7 upvotes, 6 downvotes (score 29.1%) (You must be signed in to vote)
PHP ReflectionParameter:__toString() parser
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
See http://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionparameter.tostring.php
Submitted by
Erin Millard
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11 years ago
2013-02-19 09:23
13
35 upvotes, 22 downvotes (score 48.4%) (You must be signed in to vote)
PHP variable name
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Valid PHP variable name as defined in the manual at http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.basics.php
Submitted by
Erin Millard
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11 years ago
2013-02-05 09:18
51
191 upvotes, 140 downvotes (score 52.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Disorted Email Addresses
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches distorted email addresses and converts them back to real ones.
Submitted by
dislick
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11 years ago
2013-01-16 14:11
40
325 upvotes, 285 downvotes (score 49.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
URL regexp
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
A quite neat regular expression for URLs, e-mails..., I found on Matthew O'Riordan's blog.
Submitted by
Matthew O'Riordan
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11 years ago
2013-01-14 17:52
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string substitution in bash behaving differently from PCRE(PHP<7.3>
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1 upvotes, 0 downvotes (score 20.7%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
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^
(
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{1,3}
$
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/
gm
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Submitted by
anonymous
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6 months ago
2023-05-27 12:58