Regular expressions are a declarative language, mainly used for pattern matching within strings. Please include a tag specifying the programming language you are using, together with this tag.
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Using Regexp to select the date from a string [on hold]
I have a string with date details with time, but I would like to show the day information alone. For that, I use the regexp to select the date. Can anyone tell me the regexp, and if what is used is ...
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Regex-ing an array
I am new using regex expression. After much digging I came up with this code. I would like to know if this is the correct way. I want to search in Joomla for some html tags with specific class and ...
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Deserialize an email header into key-value pairs
I've created a function that will deserialize an email header into a list of key-value pairs. I've run numerous tests using MS Office Outlook 2010 and MS Office 14.0 Object Library, all of which were ...
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Phone Number Extracting using RegEx And HtmlAgilityPack
I've written this whole code to extract cell numbers from a website. It is extracting numbers perfectly but very slowly, and it's also hanging my Form while Extracting.
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Using URLs and RegEx for web scraper from a dictionary [closed]
I have dozens of functions which GET/POST to some URLs and extract data using RegEx. The URLs and regular expressions were hard-coded earlier but now I moved all of them to a dictionary. I then saw ...
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Split a string of hostnames, expand from regex, return non-duplicated names in original order
I have the following function. It can be passed a candidate_string such as the following examples:
"device1 device2"
"device1"
"device.*"
"device.region"
"device[123]
Assume that target_list ...
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Expand hostnames from a string of hostnames and/or regex
This code will be passed a string which will contain one or more hostnames.
A hostname can be
dotted-decimal
plain name (like my_host)
FQDN or even partially ...
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Performance of RegExp vs Rune Loop
I was recently talking to someone about a function I wrote to mimic (very basically) the string interpolation function String.Format() found in the C# language. ...
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Align text (left, center, right) without additional packages
I wrote this short subroutine to left, center, right-align a multiline string.
How can I make it better (shorter, prettier, optimized)? Can you offer some suggestions?
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Two implementations of website internationalization
I have attempted to create an internationalization system for my PHP framework that I'm working on.
For the purpose I decided I will be using MySQL to store languages and translations. Respectively I ...
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Process a line in chunks via Regular Expressions with Ruby
I'm writing a Ruby script to reverse engineering message log files. They come from an external system with the following characteristics:
Each line of the log file has at least one message.
Each ...
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Match Simple Sentence or Partial Sentence
Description
Match a Simple Sentence or a partial sentence
Suitable for matching
People Names (to some extent)
Product Titles (to some extent)
Correct use of apostrophe (to some extent)
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Replacing non-ASCII characters
I wrote a C# program to remove non-ASCII characters in a text file, and then output the result to a .NonAsciiChars file.
The input file is in XML format. In fact, ...
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Do I have too many regexes in my validation logic?
The below function uses Javascript to validate a Belgian telephone number and format it according to the guidelines for phone number formatting.
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Validate multiple regexes without a for loop in JavaScript
For a project, I need to validate a VAT number against the correct algorithm. I found a library for this here (freeware, so I should be able to reuse it) that I'm grateful exists. However, I feel like ...
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Regex to validate font names
/((([\w -]+)|("[\w -]+"))( *, *)?)+/
http://refiddle.com/18ql
I'm trying to use a PHP regex to sanitize a user input for a list of fonts. The above one seems to ...
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Pattern tokenization program
I am writing this program to try and get some practice at C++ and correct and proper styling.
This code is meant to take user input from a pip and then run it through the program. The user enters a ...
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Generating the pretty bit at the end of a URL
I'm having a dip into F# and am attempting not to write it like it's C#.
One area that bothers me is using members of System.String. These often need to be chained ...
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Cleaner or better readability in URL composition
I have a URL that is hardcoded via a config which I extract into a config:
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Automatic condensing of whitespace in HTML
One of the things that has occurred to me more recently is that if you add up all of the bandwidth that is taken up by thousands of users downloading the newlines and tabs used to make HTML source ...
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Convert WKT representations of geometries into GeoJson
I am working on a class library in C# to convert WKT to GeoJson. I am getting shapes in WKT out of MSSQL. A lot of the shapes ...
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Is this regular expression optimizable (reduced match steps) [closed]
Requirement that need to handle:
only ascii letters in lower register [a-z], digits [0-9], ...
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What are some indicators that I was over-thinking my solution to this problem?
This question is a cross between career question and a code review. I was uncertain where to ask, but since there is code involved I went with CodeReview.
I’m going through the process of technical ...
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Canonicalizing a large set of addresses using many regex substitutions
I have a script that is standardizing a large amount of data in the database. The standardization involves applying over 500 regular expressions to the data.
Here is some quick pseudocode:
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Cheat Code Scraper
During breaks, I find myself playing Emerald version a lot and was tired of having to use the school's slow wifi to access the internet. I wrote a scraper to obtain cheat codes and send them to my psp ...
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Optimizing and improving a username regex
I have created this regular expression to validate usernames which I need in my projects:
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Regex validation for Email Address
I need to validate whether my regex is correct for below scenario. Suggestion's if the regex is correct:
Wiki Link Local_part
The local-part of the email address may use any of these ASCII ...
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More Pythonic version of finding substring with one glob-like expression
Giving the following example list the task is: find out whether the
second expression is in the first one. * shall be considered as a
wildcard for any ...
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Preg_match pattern for user input filtering
My users may need to supply a 'disease category' to my site. I need to let them use all alphanumeric characters, hyphens and single quotes. Would someone review this to see if they feel it's ...
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Negative Lookbehind Regex
I have the following code which attempts to match all strings like "*SOMESTRING" (which can include numeric values), but not "*SOMESTRING*". For this I am using a negative lookahead as follows;...
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Is this `img` creator decently secure from XSS?
This is being used now, seems decent to me but I'm curious.
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Determine if a path matches a pattern
I have been struggling with a regular expression involving path names. Immediately, this is a bit troublesome, owing to the embedded / in the pattern, but braces to the rescue.
First the convention ...
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Check whether a list of list of string fits a regex efficiently
I have the following structure for my object:
Word (Object)
Word (String)
List<Symbol>
Symbol (Object)
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Breaking after one of several string replaces occur
I have a script that matches a string against ~20 different regexs for the purpose of changing it. They are ordered and formed that the string will only ever match against one. How can I avoid ...
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VB6/VBA Declaration (Dim) Syntax Parser
As part of a project I'm working on, I've implemented a class that encapsulates the syntax for a vb6/vba Dim statement.
Given a line of code, the ...
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VerbalExpressions in Scala
I forked the original implementation of VerbalExpressions in Scala here: https://github.com/pathikrit/ScalaVerbalExpressions
I am looking forward to these things in the code review:
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Parsing BLAST output in XML format using Regular Expression
There many other better ways to parse BLAST output in .xml format, but I was curious to try using regex, even if it is not so straightforward and common. Here is the code how to extract translated ...
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Combining two indexOf and regex in to one
I have the following code that splits a combination of names on either the word and or the & ampersand:
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Regex match for a string in a URL
I feel like there is too much repetitive code going on here. All I am doing is doing a basic regex match for a string in the URL. If a match is found, I find an li with a class (.index, .grid, .type) ...
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Efficient use of regular expression and string manipulation
The following is my solution to Java vs C++. I think the way I have used the re library is inefficient, and possible erroneous as I am getting tle.
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Converting snake_case to CamelCase
Is there an effective way, maybe with regex, to change the following text pattern?
I have a string like abc_def_ghi_jkl. I want to replace it to ...
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Is this a safe way to parse out HTML tag attributes?
I needed a super simple parser to get HTML attributes and their values. I didn’t want to load a big library or anything so I made this.
I realize I am making assumptions here, mainly:
Attribute ...
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How to simplify Regex with Data.Text?
This function tells that elements of content either (maybe) match regexes that you like or match regexes that you don't like.
This messy code requires ...
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Parsing playlists efficiently
I have this regexp working, simple, but I feel like it may not be the best way to code it. Basically, I have a playlist separated by line breaks returned as tcp data like so:
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What would be preferred aesthetically and performance wise?
Which one of these two would you prefer writing in your code?
This:
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Best way to comment regex
Regular expressions are one of the worst aspects of debugging hell. Since they are contained in string literals, It's hard to comment how they work when the expressions are fairly long.
Say I have ...
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Speeding up and fixing phone numbers from CSVs with Regex
I've hodgepodged together an attempt to extract all phone numbers from all CSVs in a directory, regardless of where they are and what format they're in. I want all phone numbers to be printed to a ...
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Communicating between plugins whilst maintaining context in Javascript
I'm making some changes to a JavaScript plugin on a site I've been made steward over. This main plugin has it's own sub-plugins and I'm trying to make certain aspects modular.
Currently, I'm ...
