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]
Submitted by nitrateag

Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
Created·2023-05-17 17:36
Flavor·JavaScript

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(?<!```html\s*)(<link href=.*?)(?=^\s*$)
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Description

PATTERNS

RegEx Flavour

ECMAScript (JavaScript, ActionScript, TypeScript, etc.)

NOTES FOR ALL PATTERNS IN THIS SCRIPT:

  • These require the regex library, not Python's built-in-crap
  • These require the Single Line (regex101) or regex.DOTALL (Python regex) flag

Style Blocks (2 patterns)

Matches:

  • All <style> any code here </style> blocks that aren't preceded by ```css + any amount of optional whitespace

Pattern 1: Old version (would have replaced all punctuation with punctuation from the string library)

<font color=red>NOTE</font>: Does not require regex.DOTALL

    (?<!```css\s*)(\<style\>[\sa-z0-9\-\.\[\{\]\}:;#]+\<\/style\>)

Pattern 2: Newest version (much better)

    (?<!```css\s*)(<style>.*?<\/style>)
    (?<!```css\s*)(<style>.*?<\/style>)

HTML Document

Matches:

  • This does the same thing as above but for <!DOCTYPE html> any code here </html>

Pattern:

    (?<!```html\s*)(<!DOCTYPE html>.*?<\/html>)

HTML Link

Matches:

  • All blocks of code containing <link href=> up to, but not including, an empty line

Pattern:

    (?<!```html\s*)(<link href=.*?)(?=^\s*$)
Submitted by anonymous