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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·2023-03-23 21:14
Updated·2026-01-28 17:16
Flavor·JavaScript

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^\s*\S+\s+up\s+(?<days_hrs_minutes>(?:\S+\s+day[s]?,\s+\d+:\d+(?:\s+min)?)|\d+:?\d+(?:\s+min)?)
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Text: 16:37:50 up 18 days, 19:59, load average: 0.23, 0.26, 0.29 11:12:08 up 899 days, 20:35, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.29, 0.25 15:19:17 up 22:45, load average: 0.18, 0.31, 0.36 11:11:11 up 12:55, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.06 11:11:11 up 55 min, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.06

Match: 18 days, 19:59 899 days, 20:35 22:45 12:55 55 min

Submitted by Feruz Ibadullaev