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Get path from any text

Created·2023-01-31 14:38
Updated·2023-07-23 20:17
Type·Match
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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\((?!([^\(\)\[\]]*(\b)(ARR|ARRANGEMENT|ARRANGEMENTS|ARRANGED|CHOPPED|DUB|EDIT|FT|FEAT|FEATURING|INSTRUMENTAL|MASH UP|MASHUP|MASH-UP|MIX|REMIX|REPRISE|SCREWED|TITLE|VERSION)(\b)[^\(\)\[\]]*)).*?\)
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Description
Created·2015-02-23 22:13
Type·Substitution
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

strip or remove parentheses enclosed text - including the parentheses itself - only if the enclosed text does not contain any of the FULL keyword(s). Leave all parentheses enclosed text if it contains any keyword(s) listed in the regex string. Uses negative lookahead and \b for determining word boundaries. For PostgreSQL, replace \b with \y for word boundaries.

Submitted by marie bacuno
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