Community Patterns

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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·2014-12-17 13:00
Flavor·ECMAScript (JavaScript)

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^(rgb\s*?\(\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\s*?,\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\s*?,\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\s*?\))$|^(rgba\s*?\(\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\s*?,\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\s*?,\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\s*?,\s*?(0|0\.\d*|1|1.0*)\s*?\))$|^(transparent)$|^(#([a-fA-F0-9]){3})$|^(#([a-fA-F0-9]){6}$)|(^hsl\s*?\(\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|[1-2]\d\d|3[0-5]\d|360)\s*?,\s*?(000|100|0?\d{2}|0?0?\d)%\s*?,\s*?(000|100|0?\d{2}|0?0?\d)%\s*?\)$)|(^hsla\s*?\(\s*?(000|0?\d{1,2}|[1-2]\d\d|3[0-5]\d|360)\s*?,\s*?(000|100|0?\d{2}|0?0?\d)%\s*?,\s*?(000|100|0?\d{2}|0?0?\d)%\s*?,\s*?(0|0\.\d*|1|1.0*)\s*?\)$)$
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Description

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
  • hsla(360,100%,100%,0.5334) - hsla color value

Regex allows whitespaces between i.e. rgb and (, also between numbers and commas, but not in value like 55% between number and percentage. To change this behaviour simply remove \s*? from appriopriate places.

Submitted by grouch