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

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Regular Expression
Created·2021-08-01 07:53
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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(?<url>(?:(?<scheme>[a-zA-Z]+:\/\/)?(?<hostname>(?:[-a-zA-Z0--ÖØ-öø-ÿ@%_\+~#=]{1,256}\.){1,256}(?:[-a-zA-Z0--ÖØ-öø-ÿ@%_\+~#=]{1,256})))(?::(?<port>[[:digit:]]+))?(?<path>(?:\/[-a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+,\\\/:;=@\[\]._~%]*)*)(?<query>(?:(?:\#|\?)[-a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+,\\\/:;=@\[\]._~]*)*))
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Description

any given url inside a text will be recognized and split into different groups:

  • url (full url)
  • scheme
  • hostname (subdomain + domain + tld)
  • port
  • path
  • query (GET-parameters)

while the only group required for a match is the hostname, therefore example.com would allready be a match.

Submitted by ttschnz