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1566 upvotes, 1083 downvotes (score 57.2%) (You must be signed in to vote)
regex101.com id grabber
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
grabs the ID for the regex101.com permalink to code
Submitted by
chris mccoy
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10 years ago
2013-12-12 13:09
(Last modified 5 months ago)
2023-07-19 16:25
236
717 upvotes, 481 downvotes (score 57%) (You must be signed in to vote)
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
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10 years ago
2013-10-23 17:46
106
601 upvotes, 495 downvotes (score 51.9%) (You must be signed in to vote)
trim
ECMAScript (JavaScript)
trim string
Submitted by
fp
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10 years ago
2013-09-10 08:21
72
410 upvotes, 338 downvotes (score 56.4%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Regex for telephone numbers all over the world
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ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Detects most of the phone numbers all over the world
Submitted by
Aditya Joshi
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10 years ago
2014-04-08 07:58
(Last modified 2 months ago)
2023-10-09 14:47
40
325 upvotes, 285 downvotes (score 49.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
URL regexp
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
A quite neat regular expression for URLs, e-mails..., I found on Matthew O'Riordan's blog.
Submitted by
Matthew O'Riordan
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11 years ago
2013-01-14 17:52
18
310 upvotes, 292 downvotes (score 52.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Date: DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss
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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate and capture dateTime parts, includes validation for leap years, range 1000-2999. Fixed bug
Submitted by
Ka.
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11 years ago
2013-05-17 13:07
86
297 upvotes, 211 downvotes (score 54.1%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Password Validation
ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Checks that a password has a minimum of 6 characters, at least 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, and 1 number with no spaces.
Submitted by
Christian Klemp
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8 years ago
2015-07-08 18:46
35
236 upvotes, 201 downvotes (score 49.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
http://
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
Mitus M.
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10 years ago
2014-03-26 06:44
51
191 upvotes, 140 downvotes (score 52.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Disorted Email Addresses
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches distorted email addresses and converts them back to real ones.
Submitted by
dislick
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11 years ago
2013-01-16 14:11
6
150 upvotes, 144 downvotes (score 45.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Password
ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by
anonymous
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10 years ago
2013-12-06 14:02
(Last modified 5 months ago)
2023-07-21 04:59
31
142 upvotes, 111 downvotes (score 50%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Email address (most used)
ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Email address, most used cases
Submitted by
Jago
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8 years ago
2015-07-01 09:32
34
123 upvotes, 89 downvotes (score 51.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
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
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10 years ago
2014-05-12 13:35
18
119 upvotes, 101 downvotes (score 47.5%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Email validation
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
tutsplus.com
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9 years ago
2014-09-16 13:45
16
101 upvotes, 85 downvotes (score 47.1%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Alphanumeric Regex
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
Deepan
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8 years ago
2015-06-15 13:57
4
95 upvotes, 91 downvotes (score 43.9%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Phone number
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by
Mark Landry
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8 years ago
2015-06-23 19:15
14
92 upvotes, 78 downvotes (score 46.6%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Phone Number
ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Allows phone numbers with optional country code, optional special characters and whitespace
Submitted by
Tlmader
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8 years ago
2015-08-11 17:07
26
91 upvotes, 65 downvotes (score 50.5%) (You must be signed in to vote)
match valid JSON
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches any valid JSON object, matches recursively. Passes all JSON test cases I found.
Submitted by
Mateon1
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9 years ago
2014-11-17 20:47
16
90 upvotes, 74 downvotes (score 47.2%) (You must be signed in to vote)
Password
ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Safe Password that allow only with a number, a lowercase, a uppercase, and a special character
Submitted by
davidlondono
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9 years ago
2015-04-28 16:49
23
88 upvotes, 65 downvotes (score 49.6%) (You must be signed in to vote)
userName
PCRE (PHP <7.3)
1-15 alphanumeric login name
Submitted by
gsanchezc
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9 years ago
2015-06-06 08:00
28
77 upvotes, 49 downvotes (score 52.4%) (You must be signed in to vote)
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
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9 years ago
2014-10-15 13:22
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Disorted Email Addresses
51
191 upvotes, 140 downvotes (score 52.3%) (You must be signed in to vote)
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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Submitted by
dislick
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11 years ago
2013-01-16 14:11