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20

Cron schedule

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate cron lines (even the ones commented out)
Submitted by anonymous - 8 years ago
24

Parsing browser User Agents

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
From a (fairly large) list of User Agent strings, extract the OS, Browser, and Device Type.
Submitted by OnlineCop - 9 years ago
(Last modified 5 months ago)
13

Get path from any text

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PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
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...
Submitted by nitrateag - 10 months ago
(Last modified 4 months ago)
7

best youtube id match ( iframe embed replace ready )

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
MATCH ANY YOUTUBE ID author : mi-ca v1.0 – 2017.03.08 This Regex match any youtube url and grab the ID. Embed ready √ --...
Submitted by mi-ca.ch - 5 years ago
14

RFC3339 DateTime

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates a RFC3339 DateTime format. Does not validates the Data
Submitted by anonymous - 8 years ago
9

Fiddler raw body to PHP array

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by garsax - 8 years ago
9

Conventional Commits validation

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regex prevents the writing of non-standard conventional commits. I'm available on my github
Submitted by Krisque - 2 years ago
(Last modified 4 months ago)
11

remove comments from php code

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

Fixo LDN CSP e SEM CSP

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Marcos Müller - 9 years ago
483

regex101.com id grabber

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
grabs the ID for the regex101.com permalink to code
Submitted by chris mccoy - 10 years ago
(Last modified 5 months ago)
13

Match Gmail Email

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Match Gmail Email
Submitted by Óscar Enríquez - 9 years ago
236

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 - 10 years ago
10

MikroTik FireWall

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Regex used in Splunk to extract fields from Mikrotik FW. NOTES: Mikrotik must be configured to use "BSD Syslog" format FW rules must add, as log prefix, the action: drop accep...
Submitted by HappyIdeasMaker - 9 years ago
5

Find All Python imports

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
5

relative to absolute

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
relative to absolute
Submitted by xp_prg - 9 years ago
5

Quartz Cron Validation

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2362985/verifying-a-cron-expression-is-valid-in-java
Submitted by anonymous - 8 years ago
5

Codice fiscale italiano

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Oltre a supportare le omocodie controlla in modo restrittivo il carattere relativo al mese di nascita
Submitted by Aldo Medri - 8 years ago
5

look for any $_POST['name']

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
if you are as lazy as me and want to replace every "=$_POST['name'];" using Dreamweaver or any development tool that allows using regular expressions to search in current file/document.
Submitted by Kevinator - 8 years ago
5

get specific value from html tag

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by A.ROA - 7 years ago
7

validate US (5 & 9 digit) ZipCodes and CA PostalCodes

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
1234...579

Get path from any text

13

Regular Expression
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PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

/
(?<opening>\b(?<montage>[a-zA-Z]:[\/\\])|[\/\\][\/\\](?<!http:\/\/)(?<!https:\/\/)(?>[?.][\/\\](?:[^\/\\<>:"|?\n\r ]+[\/\\])?(?&montage)?|(?!(?&montage)))|%\w+%[\/\\]?)(?:[^\/\\<>:"|?\n\r ,'][^\/\\<>:"|?\n\r]*(?<![ ,'])[\/\\])*(?:(?=[^\/\\<>:"'|?\n\r;, ])(?:(?:[^\/\\<>:"|?\n\r;, .](?: (?=[\w\-]))?(?:\*(?!= ))?(?!(?&montage)))+)?(?:\.\w+)*)|(?:'(?&opening)(?=.*'\W|.*'$)(?:[^\/\\<>:'"|?\n\r]+(?:'(?=\w))?[\/\\]?)*')|"(?&opening)(?=.*")(?:[^\/\\<>:"|?\n\r]+[\/\\]?)*"
/
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Submitted by nitrateag - 10 months ago
(Last modified 4 months ago)