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7

Date validation

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Besides leap year handling, this takes care of date validation in the yy-mm-dd format.
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
7

Any positive integer except zero

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Harsh - 9 years ago
7

Extract currency with currency symbol if present

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Extracts values of the form £nnn,nnn.nn or $nnn.nnn from text
Submitted by Simon Gardner - 9 years ago
7

Remove Widows (PHP)

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Adds a non-breaking space between the last two words of sentences
Submitted by herkulano - 9 years ago
7

Date and time format - ISO 8601

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Matches ISO 8601 date formats
Submitted by Ettienne - 9 years ago
7

Max - URL Extract

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Ayush - 9 years ago
8

Validate Base64 single-line string

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by ka. - 11 years ago
8

Date time Advanced

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Mr.Neutro - 11 years ago
8

Extract Protocol, URL, URL Path, get parameters and hash from URI

Python
This is simplified from my last submission.
Submitted by Dale O'Brien - 10 years ago
8

Sentence grabber /w extra check

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Grabs sentences including terms like: e.g. z.b. Figs.These get caught in 1st capturing group. Problem: how to only accept matching sentences which contain pattern \b\d+[a-z]{0,2}\b?
Submitted by light0 - 10 years ago
8

repeat group match

Python
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
8

Alphanumeric and Spaces

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Alow alphanumeric characters and spaces
Submitted by JTN - 9 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
8

IP Address (with 0s)

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Matches all valid IP addresses from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
Submitted by Ryan Plummer - 9 years ago
9

Removing an XML Nodes namespace prefix from a XML string wit

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 11 years ago
9

Youtube ID match

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regex will match any Youtube video ID thrown at it and return one capturing group containing the ID.
Submitted by Jacob Overgaard - 11 years ago
9

Extract url GET parameters

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Returns key/value pair of a url. Also works with google fonts which has additional information
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
9

Fixo LDN CSP e SEM CSP

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Marcos Müller - 10 years ago
9

UUID

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
9

English date in "dd mmmm yyyy" format

Python
Parse an English date following the "dd mmmm yyyy" format.
Submitted by Tantale - 9 years ago
9

RFC 3987 compliant URL regex

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This is a JavaScript port of the URL regex from http://stackoverflow.com/a/190405/384062 that includes a bug fix and some optimization. Mathias Bynens's Regenerate was used to convert unicode escapes. Bug fix: Eliminated stray | falsely allowing querystring to contain | ...
Submitted by Hans Meyer - 9 years ago
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Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

/
P(ost)?[\.\s]*(O|0)(ff(ice)?)?[\.\s]+B(o|0)x
/
gmi
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Description

Detects PO Box matches in address fields. Used to validate if address looks like a PO Box or not. This is needed for validation logic when businesses are not allowed to ship to PO Boxes.

Submitted by anonymous - 6 years ago