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remove blank keys in query string

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
looks for blank keys in the query string and remove it, in order to make shorter request.
Submitted by M.Nizam - 8 years ago
4

Credit Card Validation - MasterCard, Visa, Amex, Discover

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
MasterCard - ^5[1-5]\d+ Visa - ^4\d+ Amex - ^3[47]\d+ Discover - 6011|65|64...
Submitted by Eric Foster - 8 years ago
4

Campos Decimais (pt_br)

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Funciona para campos decimais para moeda nacional brasileira. Aceita números inteiros, separação por milhar e a separação decimal.
Submitted by Murilo C. Cumerlatto - 8 years ago
4

INI Parser

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Created for purpose of reading an INI file in C# applications. Supports comments and comment escape characters. I plan to add more escape characters (such as \=). s - Section scp - Section Comment Prefix sc - Section Comment...
Submitted by Raxdiam - 5 years ago
4

among us references

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
it detects among us references among us aming us mongus amogus sus...
Submitted by h - 3 years ago (Last modified 3 years ago)
4

CloudFlare

PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
Cloud Flare
Submitted by anonymous - 3 years ago
4

Email

PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
email format control
Submitted by ahmetbarut - 3 years ago
4

C# Regex Extract/Match Nested HTML Elements/Tags

.NET 7.0 (C#)
With this C# regex, you can easily match/Parse Nested HTML tags. Example input: ...
Submitted by w4po - 3 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
34

Google like regex

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Attempts to mimic Google search box behavior, returning an array with the separated search strings (that keep the +/- indicator for following operations)
Submitted by mettjus - 10 years ago
22

UK Postcode Checker

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Checks for valid UK/British postcodes. There was another on here that had for some reason been upvoted, but it was actually incorrect as it worked on none of my valid own postcodes! Namely that it assumed two letters and a number (BS3) when you can have variations (M20). Allows for an optional spac...
Submitted by MaffooBristol - 10 years ago
11

html color match: transparent, #fff, #123456, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This may be useful or not to test whether a given string is a valid (more or less) html color value. It matches color values such as: #123 - short hex color value #123456 - hex color value rgb(255,255,0) - rgb color value rgba(255,255,0,1.0) - rgba color value hsl(360,100%,100%) - hsl color value...
Submitted by grouch - 10 years ago
106

ECMAScript/JavaScript trim

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Trim leading and trailing whitespace from a string.
Submitted by fp - 11 years ago (Last modified a month ago)
25

Quote Macthing with escape

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Matches text within quotes (", ') and escapes the charecters.
Submitted by Vihan Bhargava - 9 years ago
15

IPv4

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by robwa - 9 years ago
18

Date: DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss

Recommended
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate and capture dateTime parts, includes validation for leap years, range 1000-2999. Fixed bug
Submitted by Ka. - 11 years ago
28

CSV line parsing

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Captures all fields from a CSV file's line. Can be customized with user-defined field separator and protecting character.
Submitted by Various - 10 years ago
7

Max - URL Extract

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Ayush - 8 years ago
52

Disorted Email Addresses

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches distorted email addresses and converts them back to real ones.
Submitted by dislick - 12 years ago
9

RFC 3987 compliant URL regex

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This is a JavaScript port of the URL regex from http://stackoverflow.com/a/190405/384062 that includes a bug fix and some optimization. Mathias Bynens's Regenerate was used to convert unicode escapes. Bug fix: Eliminated stray | falsely allowing querystring to contain | ...
Submitted by Hans Meyer - 9 years ago
6

Replace caracters not inside HTM tags

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Select a character (or string) ingnoring if that element is inside the HTML tags. Useful to apply html tags using replace.
Submitted by Alex5B - 10 years ago
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Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

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(?<type>.{1})(?<user_access>.{3})(?<group_access>.{3})(?<other_access>.{3}) +(?<oder>[0-9]*) +(?<owner>[a-z]*) +(?<group>[a-z]*) +(?<size>\d*) +(?<month>[a-z]{3}) +(?<day>\d{1,2}) +(?<year>\d{0,4})(?<time>(?<hour>\d{2}):(?<minute>\d{2}))? +(?<filename>(?<basename>.+)\.(?<extension>.*)|(?<no_extension_filename>.*))
/
gmi
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Description

parse linux ln -l output command

Submitted by guignol95 - 9 years ago