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·2021-08-25 12:40
Flavor·Java

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^(((\d{3}[1-9]|\d{2}[1-9]\d|\d[1-9]\d{2}|[1-9]\d{3})(\/)(((0[13578]|1[02])(\/)(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]))|((0[469]|11)(\/)(0[1-9]|[12]\d|30))|(02(\/)(0[1-9]|[1]\d|2[0-8]))))|(((\d{2})(0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|((0[48]|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))(\/)02(\/)29))$
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^(((\d{3}[1-9]|\d{2}[1-9]\d|\d[1-9]\d{2}|[1-9]\d{3})(/)(((0[13578]|1[02])(/)(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]))|((0[469]|11)(/)(0[1-9]|[12]\d|30))|(02(/)(0[1-9]|[1]\d|2[0-8]))))|(((\d{2})(0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|((0[48]|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))(/)02(/)29))$

Match year/month/day, date format. E.g: 2021/08/25 [match] 2021/09/30 [match] 2018/02/28 [match] 2024/02/29 [match] 2023/02/29 [mismatch]

Submitted by mayl0421