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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]
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Regular Expression
Created·2026-01-21 11:23
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)

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\b[0-9]{2}(0[1-9]|[2][1-9]|[13][012])(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01])[0-9]{5}\b
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Description

Correct Poland PESEL base regex validator. Covers birth dates up to 2099 year.

PESEL numbers are in YYMMDDXXXXX format, however, the month is adjusted based on what year people were born. People born from 1900-1999 has no adjustment, 2000-2099 is the month +20, 2100-2199 is +40, 2200-2299 is +60. For example, if someone was born December 16, 2016, their PESEL would be 163216XXXXX.

Submitted by @Sldmk