Regular Expressions 101

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Match any url in text or html (http, https)

PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
Match any url in text or html (http, https)
Submitted by Jérémy Munsch - 3 years ago
12

Full url parse, domain, path, params

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
13

Credit Card Expiry Date

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Allows inserting expiry date as MM/YYYY or MM-YYYY format
Submitted by Rider - 9 years ago
13

Match Gmail Email

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Match Gmail Email
Submitted by Óscar Enríquez - 10 years ago
11

remove comments from php code

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
10

MikroTik FireWall

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Regex used in Splunk to extract fields from Mikrotik FW. NOTES: Mikrotik must be configured to use "BSD Syslog" format FW rules must add, as log prefix, the action: drop accep...
Submitted by HappyIdeasMaker - 9 years ago
10

money: either 0 or 2 dp

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
237

Matching email addresses per RFC5322

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
The BNF rules from RFC 5322 transformed to PCRE by Nikita Popov and described in the post http://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html.
Submitted by Michael Musson - 11 years ago
483

regex101.com permalink id grabber

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Grabs the ID for the regex101.com permalink code. If a revision number is provided, grab that as well.
Submitted by chris mccoy - 11 years ago (Last modified 7 months ago)
9

Fixo LDN CSP e SEM CSP

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Marcos Müller - 10 years ago
14

us postal/zip

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by jay johnson - 11 years ago
13

US Currency Format

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
82

Distinguish torrent files (series vs movies)

Python
A neat regex for finding out whether a given torrent name is a series or a movie. Returns the full name of the series with the separator needed to make it pretty (ie, replace it with space or what you want). Also returns the season number or the year for the movie/series, depending on what was prev...
Submitted by Firas Dib - 10 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
10

Find Reddit Threads

Python
Simply searches for the thread-id in any kind of valid reddit-URL.
Submitted by Mio - 10 years ago
10

entity

Python
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
24

grab valid css rules and properties

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by Pavel Dominguez - 9 years ago
14

Email regex validation

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
RegEx email /^((?!\.)[\w-_.]*)(@\w+)(\.\w+(\.\w+)?)$/gim; Just playing with Reg Ex. This to validate emails in following ways ...
Submitted by https://www.linkedin.com/in/peralta-steve-atileon/ - 6 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
11

IPv4 Validator

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

extract subdomain(if available) or domain from URL

Python
This regex should extract the subdomain, if any, or the domain, if no subdomain is used, from an arbitrary URL
Submitted by trevi@twanda.com - 9 years ago
18

Email (RFC2822)

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ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Email address compliant with RFC2822
Submitted by Jago - 9 years ago
1...897898899900

Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

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^([^()[\]{}<>]*)(\(((?1)(?2)*)*\)|\[(?3)*\]|<(?3)*>|{(?3)*})(?1)$
/
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Description

Check the correct order of the brackets (),<>,{},[] fix slashes

Submitted by Korniychuk Anton<ancor.dev@gmail.com> - 8 years ago