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4

Get stuff inside <a> tags

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Get stuff inside tags, which are between certain words
Submitted by Jerry - 11 years ago
4

Strip multi-line (star) comments from JavaScript, while leaving any CDATA sections intact.

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regular expression removes multi-line (star) comments from JavaScript, while leaving any CDATA sections intact. Use the global (g) modifier to match them all (if you plan to use PHP's preg_replace, the g modifier is not necessary), and use the (s) modifier to make dots match newlines (this will...
Submitted by Dane MacMillan - 12 years ago
4

Strip out domain extensions except for Microsoft .net technologies.

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 12 years ago
4

YouTube Grabber Cleanup

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 11 years ago
4

html tags

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
4

Credit Card Number

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates Credit Card Numbers of different type. Supports Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and JCB Taken from http://www.regular-expressions.info/creditcard.html If you want to support only a particular type, customise it based on following....
Submitted by Ehsan - 9 years ago
0

URL matching

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Complete url matching with storage of various parameters
Submitted by hjpotter92 - 10 years ago
4

Remove HTML tags

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regex is used to remove HTML tag on string
Submitted by Jordane BACHELET - 10 years ago
1

Validate alphanumeric and numeric range

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
For Validating alphanumeric and numeric range
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
4

Element's Attribute Value in XML (simple)

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Simple regular expression for extracting attribute value of the element in XML-string. Attribute value should be in quotes.
Submitted by Nikita Danilov - 10 years ago
4

Task 1

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Finds a happy smile, except sad one
Submitted by Kovalev Evgeny - 11 years ago
4

IPV4 address validation using recursion

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate IPv4 addresses using PCRE's recursion patterns. A shorter but less efficient alternative to https://regex101.com/r/wZ6oY5/1
Submitted by Captain Haddock - 9 years ago
3

phone

Python
matches: + example: +52 33 3884 7720 +1 770 343 5788
Submitted by miqui - 9 years ago
5

Separate words (works with spaces, dashes and underscores)

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by marcoslhc - 10 years ago
5

ipv6 Validation

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Handle all condition for ipv6 example: 1) FE80::8329 2) FE80::FFFF:8329 3) FE80::B3FF:FFFF:8329 4) FE80::0202:B3FF:FFFF:8329...
Submitted by Lim Yew Teck, Nicholas - 9 years ago
4

Simple Linux File Absolute Path Tester

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Match simple linux file absolute path as /usr/share/my-folder/helloworld.jpg
Submitted by FLonpl6 - 10 years ago
4

Validate a Particular File Extension

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates a File Path and makes sure the correct extension is at the end.
Submitted by Andrew Morpurgo - 10 years ago
4

Capture only top-level (root) domain in URL

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by guyfawkes - 9 years ago
4

tgs data delivery .zip ID

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Pull zip download ID from default links. Works with datadelivery and datadelivery1
Submitted by TRL - 9 years ago
4

Timestamp

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
12.04.1975T03:02:00.88 With milliseconds and T seperator. Excludes most invalid dates, except 30/31ths of month, leap years/february heaving only 29/28.
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
1...563564565566567...575

Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}) - - \[(\d{2}\/[a-zA-Z]{3}\/\d{4}:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2} (\+|\-)\d{4})\] ((\"(GET|POST|HEAD|OPTIONS) )(.+)(HTTP\/1\.(1|0)")) (\d{3}) (\d+) (["]((\-)|(.+))["]) (["](.+)["])
/
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Description

parse the apache access log

Submitted by pagu - 9 years ago