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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·2020-08-12 01:21
Flavor·PCRE (Legacy)

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(?:-|(?P<real_ip>[\-\da-f.:]+))\s+\[(?P<remote_ip>[\da-f.:]+)\]\s+[\w\.\-]+\s+(?<remote_user>\S+)\s+\[(?<timestamp>[^\]]+)\]\s+"(?:\-|(?<request>\w+) (?<request_uri>[^ \?]+)(?:\?(?<request_uri_query>[^ ]*))? (?<request_version>[\w\/\.]+))"\s+(?P<status>[1-9]\d{2})\s+(?P<body_bytes_sent>\d+)\s+"(?<http_referer>[^"]+)"\s+"(?<http_user_agent>[^"]+)"\s+\[(?:\-|(?P<upstream_response_time>\d+(?:.\d+)?))\s+(?P<request_time>\d+(?:.\d+)?)\]
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Description

For our own format with real ip (from proxy forwarded for header) and upstream response times:

log_format combined_w_timing '$http_x_forwarded_for [$remote_addr] - $remote_user [$time_local] '
                    '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
                    '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
                    '[$upstream_response_time $request_time]';
Submitted by anonymous