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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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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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(?(DEFINE) (?<tagnames> @CUSTOM-AT-1 | @CUSTOM-AT-2) (?<number> -? (?= [1-9]|0(?!\d) ) \d+ (\.\d+)? ([eE] [+-]? \d+)? ) (?<boolean> true | false | null ) (?<string> \" ([^\"\\\\]* | \\\\ [\"\\\\bfnrt\/] | \\\\ u [0-9a-f]{4} )* \" ) (?<array> \[ (?: (?&json) (?: , (?&json) )* )? \s* \] ) (?<pair> \s* (?&string) \s* : (?&json) ) (?<object> \{ (?: (?&pair) (?: , (?&pair) )* )? \s* \} ) (?<fieldname> [a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+ ) (?<json> \s* (?: (?&number) | (?&boolean) | (?&string) | (?&array) | (?&object) ) ) (?<fieldlist> (?: (?&fieldname) (?: , (?&fieldname) )+ )+ ) ) (?<actiontag> (?&tagnames) ) (?:\= (?'params' (?: (?'match_list'(?&fieldlist)) | (?'match_json'(?&json)) | (?'match_string'(?:[[:alnum:]\_\-]+)) ) ) )
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Created·2024-03-20 08:03
Type·Match
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

A parser for actiontags (in the format of @FOO=BAR or @FOO={"param":"bar"}. Returns the match array with the key equal to the tag and an array containing keys of 'params, params_json and params_text'

Based on: https://regex101.com/r/fL2rM8/5

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