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·2015-01-23 16:47
Updated·2023-07-19 08:36
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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(?(DEFINE) (?P<ver>\d+(?:\.\d+)*(?![.\d])) (?P<agent>Mozilla\/(?&ver)) (?P<os>(?&os_windows)|(?&os_linux)|(?&os_macintosh)|(?&os_ios)) (?P<os_windows>Windows[ ]\w+[ ](?&ver)) (?P<os_linux>Linux(?:[ ](?:i686|x86_64))?) (?P<os_macintosh>Macintosh) (?P<os_ios>(?:CPU[ ])?iPhone[ ]OS|CPU[ ]OS.*?like[ ]Mac[ ]OS[ ]X) (?P<device>(?&device_ios)|(?&device_firefox)|(?&device_android)) (?P<device_ios>iPhone|iPad) (?P<device_firefox>Mobile) (?P<device_android>Android(?:[ ](?&ver))?) (?P<browser> (?: (?&browser_ie) | (?&browser_safari) | (?&browser_chrome) | (?&browser_chromium) | (?&browser_firefox) | (?&browser_version) # | (?&browser_nexus) | (?&browser_mobile) | (?&browser_gsa) | (?&browser_quicklook) | (?&browser_opera) ) [ \/] (?: [A-Z\d]+\b(?!\.) | (?&ver) ) ) (?P<browser_safari>(?:Mobile[ ])?Safari) (?P<browser_chrome>Chrome) (?P<browser_chromium>\b\w+\b[ ]Chromium) (?P<browser_firefox>Firefox) (?P<browser_ie>MSIE) (?P<browser_version>Version) (?P<browser_nexus>Nexus[ ]\d+[ ]Build) (?P<browser_mobile>Mobile) (?P<browser_gsa>GSA) (?P<browser_quicklook>QuickLook) (?P<browser_opera>OPR) ) ^ (?:(?=.*?(?P<Agent>(?&agent)))) (?:(?=.*?(?P<OS>(?&os)))) (?:(?=.*?(?P<Device>(?&device))))? (?:(?=.*?(?P<Browser>(?&browser)(?:[ ](?&browser))*)))?
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Description

From a (fairly large) list of User Agent strings, extract the OS, Browser, and Device Type.

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