Regular expressions (often shortened to "regex") are expressions written in a declarative language used for matching patterns within strings. General reference: http://stackoverflow.com/q/22937618 Remember to include a tag specifying the programming language or tool you are using.

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Stuck on specific REGEX (VB.Net)

I have a specific case where I somehow can't find something that suits my need. I've always been struggling when parenthesis comes in strong, and this case is a bit painful. I'm trying to collect the ...
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Regular Expression that contains 1 to 3 members of a set but one of those members cannot be by itself

Here's my current regular expression: ([\d\*]{1,3}[A-Z\*]{0,3}) My problem is with the first portion [\d\*]{1,3} I need this to match at most 3 numbers and at least one number and I need to accept ...
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Regular expression to find last group in python

I want to find last group in following text.See example below Input string str1 = "Calculate fuel economy, lease, or mortgage payments Click the View menu, point to Worksheets, and then click the ...
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How to split sentence to words and punctuation using split or matcher?

I need to split sentence to words and punctuation marks, and place em into list, saving their sequence. For example: "Some text here!". And result should be: List(Some, ,text, , here,!) I'm using ...
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PHP: Regex to get name=“” 's value

I'm still very much learning Regex and I suck at it :( I am getting an external webpage, saving it to a local file. The page contains a form, now I need to find all the form's input's names and put ...
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Javascript: how to extract string from attribute via Regexp

How can I extract the string from a certain data attribute via regexp. <button data-loading-text="Some text on loading" data-toggle="button">Button</button> <button ...
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Regex not working in Firefox, but working in Chrome

I have this regex expression: var message = message.replace(/<a.+?data-pageid=(?:"|')(\d+)(?:"|').+?<\/a>/g, '@[$1]'); It works fine for Chrome and cturns this text... 'some text <a ...
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MVC .net password validation using regular expression

I'm writing a regular expression to validate a password. The conditions are: Password must contain at least two special characters Password must be at least eight characters long Password must be ...
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Python - Reading text file into dict

I have to read a text file in python into a dictionary, I have tried several options but I can't get it to work. The format of the text file is the following: Shop: someshop Schedule: from 8:00 ...
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How to match every char except slash .htaccess

I'm trying to make .htaccess expression . How can I make preg to say to match every correcter that is possible including other languages like arabic except one char which is "/" . so basically I need ...
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FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP empty

I am trying to validate a field with php. I pass the value with POST, and it must contain only numbers and pipi ("|"). I'm using filter_input to check if the value validates: ...
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Regex to extract only contact info from an MBOX file into a csv

As the title suggests I am trying to parse a large MBOX file (16,000 emails in one file) and I am working on a small file for my test. My php so far is: $string = file_get_contents("test.mbox"); ...
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Ansible: how to handle dots while using search or match functions

Here are the two scenarios and variable prefix will just hold another string. 1)This works: when: ansible_hostname | search("{{ prefix }}-test-.*") 2)This doesn't work probably because of dots in ...
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Regex helped needed for angular filter which highlights matching text from html

I have this which works but but the regex is matching with html tags, is there any way I could get it to ignore html tags. Could anyone help me to modify the regex expression so my class is only ...
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Javascript difference between '/' and \/\

I'm trying to intercept in node.js all the get requests with the following: dispatcher.onGet('/', function(req,res,chain) { ... }); but this isn't working. The following is working instead: ...
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MySQL — Order by SubString matching Index

I have a table which has companies (id, name). Before I had to search the input query against records which was handled with "like". Sometime client wanted it to end with the input query sometime it ...
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Apache error 404 and FilesMatch

our server configuration is following: ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.com/somepage <FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|s?html|css|js)$"> ErrorDocument 404 default </FilesMatch> All ...
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Comment out file paths in a file matching lines in another file with sed and bash

I have a file (names.txt) with the following content: /bin/pgawk /bin/zsh /dev/cua0 /dev/initctl /root/.Xresources /root/.esd_auth ... and so on. I want to read this file line by line, and use sed ...
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Regex Extract [Jmeter]

To make this short: I have a json response, and I need to extract some parameters from it. (Using jmeter, Regular Expression Extractor) json response: ...
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Replace string with a function of replaced string

I would like to find a performant and elegant solution to this problem : I need to replace a substring of a string, case insensitively, by a function of what have been replaced. Example : var ...
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rexexp_replace doesn't work as expected

I am trying to replace the below text to fill the question mark SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('?????/ ?????? John ??? ????? ??????? ?? ????? Pediatric Clinic ?? ??? 10 MAY 15 ?????? 01:15 PM ?????? ?????? ...
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How to use Groovy's replaceFirst with closure?

I'm a newbie on Groovy and have a question about replaceFirst with closure. The groovy-jdk API doc gives me examples of... assert "hellO world" == "hello world".replaceFirst("(o)") { ...
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Trying to replace parts of string start with same search chars

I'm trying to replace parts of my string. But I met a problem when my search string start with same character: $string = "Good one :y. Keep going :y2"; $str = str_replace(array_keys($my_array), ...
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Regex match sequance more than once

How come for something that simple I can't find an answer after looking one hour in the internet? I have this sentence: HeLLo woRLd HOw are YoU I want to capture all groups that consist of two ...
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Detect white space or brackets at starting of string and particular substring from string in php

I want to detect occurrence of substring from main string but substring could start from space or ( opening bracket at starting or closing bracket at end ) or . dot at end I want to write one ...
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How to find last alphabet in a string using c# .net

I want to find out the last alphabet in a string in c# .net. For instance, I have 1234B0097D576676 and I need to find D. Same as in 0103D0001Y000001, the result should be Y. To do this there is a ...
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ASP.NET MVC - regular expressions. What does mean: ' sign?

I have this regular expression: [RegularExpression(@"^[a-zA-Z''-'\s]{1,40}$")] I would like to know what means sign: ' ? and what is its meaning in this regex?
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I want code of python script which will read specific string in the file and modify string everytime I run the script

Suppose, there is a specific string in a file. I want to change a last character or digit of that string.how to replace it? For Ex.= specific_string=1.0.2.1 Now, last digit of string i.e. 1 should ...
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What is the best practice to remove my own tag's contents?

I use Python 2.7 and Django 1.6. I use unicode. I'd like to remove my own tag's contents. My own tag name is <nospeak>. For example, if input the message below, INPUT: ...
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Regex expression to grab value from similar text

I am having some trouble figuring out the regrex expression to grab value(highlighted in bold) from similar texts. Below are some examples of the logs that i'm collecting: [5439570:00009-01286] ...
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Incomplete results - Google Custom Search API

I am working with the custom search API to check for matching sentences. For instance if the input text to search has more than one sentence & two of them are duplicates/copied, then my expected ...
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Regex.IsMatch for specific special characters in c#

I am new to Regex, I know this is a simple question but couldn't find a solution I have a set of special characters (&, !, $, |) and a string. I just need to check whether the string contains any ...
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What should be the Regx for 999x number?

I have the number in integer which can be anything from 1 to n. Example : 1111, 9993, 9994, 99950, 9909 i want to know what is the regular expression to match and get numbers which match to pattern ...
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Inline style reading in .net from a class file

I need to fetch the style from a html element from .net class file. <img alt="" style="width: 81px; height: 61px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ...
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getting keys in a dictionary that do not contain “x” variable Python

I have the following dictionary dictionary = {'\x85': 1, '\x84': 1, 'C': 3828} What I want is only the keys and corresponding values for keys that don't contain digits, this is what I wrote ...
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Delete duplicate word in a line using a regular expiression

I want to delete duplicate word in a line. For example: arraythis1, XdashedSmall, Small, Medium, Large, XdashedLarge, XdashedSmall, Small, Medium, Large, XdashedLarge I want to remove all of the ...
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How should I write a python regex for one/two digits numbers sequences?

I'm trying to create a python regex for "one or two digits numbers sequences separated by optional multiple spaces or an optional single comma." For example: " 1" Should tests good " 1 2 ...
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How to install php plugin in intellij idea?

I am trying to install php plugin in intellij idea, one plugin is install successfully, and its working on controller and model, but how to connect with ctp file.
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How to remove ALL IRC Colour codes from string

note: I'm using Python3 I've been searching everywhere and finding nothing complete. Asking on IRC everywhere. I need a regex expression that removes ALL IRC colour control codes. Nowhere is there a ...
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javascript regex how to validate yyyy/yyyy format

Hello I have a text field, how do I make text only accept yyyy/yyyy format? for example 2011/2012 or 2012/2013 like that, please provide me with example in regex. Thank You
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Extract parent and child node from python tree representation.?

[Tree('ROOT', [Tree('S', [Tree('INTJ', [Tree('UH', ['Hello'])]), Tree(',', [',']), Tree('NP', [Tree('PRP$', ['My']), Tree('NN', ['name'])]), Tree('VP', [Tree('VBZ', ['is']), Tree('ADJP', [Tree('JJ', ...
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How to match only equals pattern , in other word not contain pattern

String allString = " I1 + I6 + I9 + I8 + I3 + I2 + I20 + I21 + I18 + I23 + I28 + I27 + I31 + I24 + I12 + I15 + I14 + I13 + I16 + I11 " How i check only "I1" in java regular expression pattern. ...
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Splitting Link using RegEx

i want to find category from the link. I am breaking the link into array using Regex like this. string input = link; string pattern = "/"; // Split on hyphens string[] substrings = ...
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Regex Match Html Tag and Inner Html Pattern

I've scraped a web page and I'm trying to extract data from a td that has no class or ids. Let's say I have the following html: <table> <tr> <td>Title</td> ...
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Regex syntax CEF log format

I am trying to use HIVE to parse the following some CEF log entries. CEF is a hell of a weird format: The headers are pipe delimited without enclosures, however, they accept escaped pipes within the ...
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Q: Duplicate any character using regex?

I want to duplicate any character using regex, my regex is like this. Test String:(.+\n) Regex101 https://regex101.com/r/zE7wF7/1 Ouput: 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 44.5 44.5 ...
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Is it possible to use asp:RegularExpressionValidator to validate phone number with at least 10 digits AND allow white spaces in-betweenBUTnotcounted

I searched the Stackoverflow and it seems that the other answers don't quite fit my question. I wonder whether this is possible if I only use asp:RegularExpressionValidator to validate phone numbers ...
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Javascript Regex Problems : Nothing to repeat

replacedStr = replacedStr.replace(/&^*/g, "asdfasdf"); I need replace all with this regular expression: /&^*/g But it doesn't work, I can see the error messages Nothing to repeat in ...
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Need to refine this regex expression

The input I can get might be /DemoSystems/DemoFramework/MyRepo/MyModule/tags/2015_02_22 or /DemoSystems/DemoFramework/MyRepo/MyModule/tags/2015_02_22/Demo.Tests/AverageTests.cs I need to extract ...
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Using REGEX, remove a date such as March 5, 2015

I am new with regex. I want to remove all the dates that match the format of March 20, 2015 in "March 01, 2015 to March 05, 2015 JEEBRON, LEE (NT012-003) Date In 1 Out 1 In 2 Out 2 In 3 Out 3 In 4 ...