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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
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. - 12 years ago
7

Max - URL Extract

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Ayush - 9 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
29

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
10

Just validate one sequence of

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
sdfs sdfs FLBREV00022230 dsfsdfs sdfsf FLBREV00022234 In this case is false
Submitted by Fiipe - 10 years ago
29

Wrap long string to spec length

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by fullpipe - 11 years ago
31

ninite

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by peek - 9 years ago
17

Capture comma separated numbers

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Capture comma separated numbers, no matter if there are spaces before or after the commas.
Submitted by Fernando Nunes - 9 years ago
9

Extract url GET parameters

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Returns key/value pair of a url. Also works with google fonts which has additional information
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
9

English date in "dd mmmm yyyy" format

Python
Parse an English date following the "dd mmmm yyyy" format.
Submitted by Tantale - 10 years ago
9

Letters, numbers and blank space

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
The following regular expression matches only letter a-z A-Z numbers 0-9 and a blank space for a given string.
Submitted by Jordan Raychev - 9 years ago
11

Codice fiscale

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Check "codice fiscale"
Submitted by Luca - 9 years ago
8

Sentence grabber /w extra check

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Grabs sentences including terms like: e.g. z.b. Figs.These get caught in 1st capturing group. Problem: how to only accept matching sentences which contain pattern \b\d+[a-z]{0,2}\b?
Submitted by light0 - 11 years ago
20

Between tags content

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

Date Regex(DD/MM/yyyy)

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

semver

Recommended
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Semantic Versioning regex pattern according to Tom Preston-Werner http://semver.org/ https://github.com/mojombo/semver/blob/master/semver.md First version of this regex follows semver 2.0.0....
Submitted by @gvlx <Gerardo Lisboa> - 10 years ago
7

SO: fail2ban regular to find 403 request in nginx

Python
http://stackoverflow.com/q/25778420/2072035
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
7

[A-Za-z\x{0600}-\x{06FF}\x{1000}-\x{1021}_-][-\w]*

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
A-Za-z\x{0600}-\x{06FF}\x{1000}-\x{1021}_-*
Submitted by [A-Za-z\x{0600}-\x{06FF}\x{1000}-\x{1021}_-][-\w]* - 10 years ago
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Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
^(?'Username'[-\w\d\.]+?)(?:\s+at\s+|\s*@\s*|\s*(?:[\[\]@]){3}\s*)(?'Domain'[-\w\d\.]*?)\s*(?:dot|\.|(?:[\[\]dot\.]){3,5})\s*(?'TLD'\w+)$
/
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Description

Matches distorted email addresses and converts them back to real ones.

Submitted by dislick - 12 years ago