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Get path from any text

Created·2023-01-31 14:38
Updated·2023-07-23 20:17
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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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(?:(?<scheme>[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9+\-.]*):)?(?:\/\/)?(?<host>[^\/\s:?#]+)?(?::(?<port>\d+))?(?<path>\/[^\s?#]*)?(?:\?(?<query>[^\s#]*))?(?:#(?<fragment>[^\s]*))?
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Description
Created·2026-08-01 18:18
Updated·2026-08-01 18:32
Type·Match
Flavor·.NET 7.0 (C#)

URL Parser Regex

Extracts common URL components.

Groups

GroupDescription
schemeProtocol scheme (http, ftp, etc.)
hostHost name or IP address
portPort number
pathPath part
queryQuery string
fragmentFragment identifier

Supports

  • http://example.com
  • ftp://example.com
  • //127.0.0.1:80/path
  • example.com/path?key=value#section
  • URI-like strings with schemes

Designed for .NET Regex. Extracts components but does not perform full RFC URI validation.

Submitted by Pavel Bashkardin
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