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·2022-01-14 18:51
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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^(A(D|E|F|G|I|L|M|N|O|R|S|T|Q|U|W|X|Z)|B(A|B|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|L|M|N|O|R|S|T|V|W|Y|Z)|C(A|C|D|F|G|H|I|K|L|M|N|O|R|U|V|X|Y|Z)|D(E|J|K|M|O|Z)|E(C|E|G|H|R|S|T)|F(I|J|K|M|O|R)|G(A|B|D|E|F|G|H|I|L|M|N|P|Q|R|S|T|U|W|Y)|H(K|M|N|R|T|U)|I(D|E|Q|L|M|N|O|R|S|T)|J(E|M|O|P)|K(E|G|H|I|M|N|P|R|W|Y|Z)|L(A|B|C|I|K|R|S|T|U|V|Y)|M(A|C|D|E|F|G|H|K|L|M|N|O|Q|P|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z)|N(A|C|E|F|G|I|L|O|P|R|U|Z)|OM|P(A|E|F|G|H|K|L|M|N|R|S|T|W|Y)|QA|R(E|O|S|U|W)|S(A|B|C|D|E|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|R|T|V|Y|Z)|T(C|D|F|G|H|J|K|L|M|N|O|R|T|V|W|Z)|U(A|G|M|S|Y|Z)|V(A|C|E|G|I|N|U)|W(F|S)|Y(E|T)|Z(A|M|W))$
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Description

Matches to a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 pattern.

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