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Regular and Irregular Expressions Regular expressions are a powerful form of declarative programming language, mainly used for pattern matching within strings. Students of computer science know them as the user-friendly face to the abstruse field of finite automata. The rest of us think of them as ...

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Pirate Bay name and magnet mailer

So, first time I try PHP. Thought I'd set a goal for myself, divide it up in smaller problems and start googling. So yes I got it to work, very happy. But, it is rather crude and ugly. So now I would ...
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Unicode parsing in PHP

Firstly, apologies if this is not the correct type of question for here, I had it on the stackoverflow but it was closed with a suggestion I post here. I’m in the process of converting from Latin 15 ...
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Add getters and setters to a set of variables

Any improvements are welcome. a.bat sed -r "s/private (.*) (.*);(.*)/&\npublic \1 get\u\2(){return \2;}\npublic void set\u\2(\u\2){this.\2=\u\2;}\n/" "%~1">"%~2" in: private String ...
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Better implementation of a simplified regular expression engine?

Task: On an alphabet set [a-z], a simplified regular expression is much simpler than the normal regular expression. It has only two meta characters: '.' and '*'. '.' -- exact one arbitrary ...
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I'm trying to escape some xml to be used with SOAP

I'm attempting to escape ampersands from a string before passing to PHPs SimpleXMLElement->addChild() for use with some soap webservices, but I don't want to double escape them. I'm getting these ...
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Bulleted list from dashes

Let's keep this simple. Input: - abc - def - ghi Desired output (whitespace optional): <ul> <li>abc</li> <li>def</li> <li>ghi</li> ...
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Replace match inside tags

The problem I want to solve is to replace a given string inside tags. For example, if I'm given: Some text abc [tag]some text abc, more text abc[/tag] still some more text I want to replace abc ...
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Simplify regular expression? (Converting Unicode fractions to TeX)

Background I'm converting Unicode text to TeX for typesetting. In the input, I'm allowing simple fractions like ½ and ⅔ using single Unicode characters and complex fractions like ¹²³/₄₅₆ using ...
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Python program for converting scientific notation to fixed point

I had to replace all instances of scientific notation with fixed point, and wrote a Python script to help out. Here it is: #!/usr/bin/python2 # Originally written by Anton Golov on 29 Jan 2012. # ...
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How to determine the order of letters by regex?

I want to write a regular expression to determine whether a given string is uppercase and sorted in non-descending order. ^A*B*C*D*E*F*G*H*I*J*K*L*M*N*O*P*Q*R*S*T*U*V*Q*X*Y*Z*$ I was just wondering ...
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Regex to match dates effectively [closed]

Here is the code I got from a random Google search; there is one date on that page. This regex is suppose to match every date format, but isn't getting anything. Can someone help me tweak the ...
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Checking a HTML element's class

$('pre').each(function(index) { var c = $(this).attr("class"); if (!c) { return true; } // Match only Javascript code snippets if (!c.match(/brush: js; class-name: ...
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Help me optimize this code using Regular Expressions in C#

I have a requirement to capture string in a specific format of * [Numeric Digits] *. This is how I have done right now but I think it would be faster with Regular Expressions. I dont have a lot of ...
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Code Improvement: Copy Regex named capture groups to strongly typed object

This code works to copy named capture groups of a Regex to the same named properties of a strongly typed object. However, it's not pretty. Someone mentioned I should use polymorphism to at least ...
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filter out password in xml string

We're storing the xml communications with an external service in a text in the db and in a before_create I've got the following: # filter opera password def remove_password! ...

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