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dd-mm-YYYY HH:mm:ss (year range 1000-2999)

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate Gregorian calendar dates that contain 24-hour times. This will also correctly match the Feb 29 date when it falls on a valid leap year. Leap years occur every 4 years, with one exception: when a year is evenly divisible by 100 but not evenly divisible by 400, the year will not be a leap ye...
Submitted by Ka. - 11 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
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Date with this format YYYY-MM-DD and year start 20 or 21

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Date with this format YYYY-MM-DD and year start 20 or 21 like 2014
Submitted by cisc0 - 11 years ago
-3

Date and Time

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 11 years ago
-3

Latitude/longitude tester

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Tests the string if it does contain valid latitude and longitude parameters
Submitted by Doro - 11 years ago
-3

british postcode check

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
-3

British Postcode Check

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by guest - 10 years ago
-3

regex help

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
help please. i need regex,
Submitted by James - 10 years ago
-3

Number

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Gets all numbers in a string. This includes positive and negative numbers aswell as integers and floats. By: http://www.benlorantfy.com/
Submitted by Ben - 10 years ago
-3

Match substitutions

Python
Match regular expressions substitutions, I personally use this to perform my validate if it is a substitution, then call re.sub() on it.
Submitted by Zarthus - 10 years ago
-3

mama

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
-3

Detect a numeric string

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by Ankur Chauhan - 10 years ago
-3

Strict email validation

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
-3

Select a HTML table and all its innerHTML

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by @ixzy24 - 10 years ago
-3

remove facebook urls from html

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This will remove all facebook urls from a HTML string
Submitted by Russell Miller - 9 years ago
-3

Match email addresses and get the mail provider as a group

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Ole - 9 years ago
-3

Matches percentage with any number of digits

Python
Only captures value for converting percentage to decimal. Returns empty if percentage but no value. no match = no percentage found
Submitted by sharkey - 9 years ago
-3

RegEX for account code starting with 000-

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Joe H - 9 years ago
-3

Telephone

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Find Telephone
Submitted by Mr.Fail - 9 years ago
-3

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Rafael Justo and Mauro Trajber - 9 years ago
-3

ipv4 - short version

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by gromozeka - 9 years ago
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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
(\b[u](nited)?( )?[s](tates)?(a|( of america))?\b)|(u\.s\.(a\.)?)$
/
i
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Description

Given a string that represents a location in the USA, find any version of the USA country name as one would expect at the end of that string. Does not match on if it finds it elsewhere such as a freeway name or the "us" in the city of "Russellville".

Submitted by Bobby - 10 years ago