Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

21

Get path from any text

Created·2023-01-31 14:38
Updated·2023-07-23 20:17
Flavor·PCRE2 (PHP)
Recommended·
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]
Submitted by nitrateag

Community Library Entry

5

Regular Expression
Created·2022-03-03 19:13
Updated·2023-08-01 07:26
Flavor·.NET 7.0 (C#)

@"
<div id=""target""((?'nested'<div)|</div(?'-nested')|[\w\W]*?)*</div>
"
gm
Open regex in editor

Description

With this C# regex, you can easily match/Parse Nested HTML tags.

Example input:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<title>someTitle</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div class="outer">
			<h1>SomeHeader</h1>
			<div id="target">
				<h2>anotherHeader</h2>
				<div id="child">
					<div id="grand-child">
						<h4>HelloWorld</h4>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

Output:

<div id="target">
	<h2>anotherHeader</h2>
	<div id="child">
		<div id="grand-child">
			<h4>HelloWorld</h4>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

string pattern = $@"{ startP }((?'nested'{ openP })|{ closeP }(?'-nested')|[\w\W]*?)*{ closeP }";

*'StartP' (Must include open tag), example: <div id="target" *'openP' example: <div *'closeP' example: </div

References:

In Depth with RegEx Matching Nested Constructions In Depth with .NET RegEx Balanced Grouping Regular expression matches closed HTML tags (nesting is supported)

Submitted by w4po