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]