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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Sum all numbers in text using regexp
I would like to improve everything that can be improved. I don't understand regex a lot and what could be wrong. The main improve that I am looking for is related with errors. I want make the code ...
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Webpack loader for Phaser.io asset files
The following is a webpack loader for Phaser asset files. The way this is supposed to work is that it looks at the json string, and finds all of values with "url" keys in the json object, and ...
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Regex for mobile number validation
In my country (South Africa) mobile numbers have 10 digits and always start with a "0" (e.g. 0821231231).
But they can also have the international dialing code ("+27") replacing the "0" (e.g. ...
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Terminal Chat Room
Summary
I have written a pair of Perl scripts that form a UDP chat room allowing users to send messages over the internet with RSA encryption, making the messages imune to MITM attacks. The scripts ...
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Regex for matching expression that consists of single digit numbers and operators
I would like to create a regex that will validate that a string is an equation made up of a single digits and either the * or + ...
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Regular expression matching with string slice in Go
I have a slice of strings, and within each string contains multiple key=value formatted messages. I want to pull all the keys out of the strings so I can collect ...
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Parsing a complex number using regular expressions
Requirements were to create a constructor for a complex number, that receives a string. For example: \$3+5i\$. The regex extracts positive or negative numbers from the string with optional decimal.
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Finding a substring within a string using regular expressions
I'm new to Java and is trying to find a substring within a string using regular Expressions. I was just wondering if there are any alternative ways to achieve the same goal, or in a more elegant or ...
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Wikipedia indexer and shortest link finder
I have the following code, how can I make it more efficient? Also, it doesn't always find the shortest route. (See Cat -> Tree)
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Adding minutes to a time value in Ruby
I recently submitted a code-challenge for an interview according to the following guidelines:
About
Write a function or method that accepts two mandatory arguments and returns a result.
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Creating a RegExp in JavaScript from user input
My goal is to accept user input regex in the following forms
/regex|here/i
/regex|here/
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Regex to match strings safely
The following regex is meant to improve stringmatching by sanitizing the user -defined commandPrefix and checking for whitespace and line-endings after the ...
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Parsing HTML from multiple webpages simultaneously
My friend wrote a scraper in Go that takes the results from a house listing webpage and finds listings for houses that he's interested in. The initial search returns listings, they are filtered by ...
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Parsing option symbols
I think I have this working, but I'm not sure it's completely accurate.
I'm trying to parse Option Symbols. An Option Symbol is made up of 4 parts:
Root Symbol (up to 6 characters)
Expiration Date ...
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RFC 4180-compliant CSV parser in Java
While looking at a recent question, I realized that there is no CSV parser in the standard Java library. I decided to write one that complies with RFC 4180. Highlights of the standard include:
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Convert #hashtagstylephrases to a proper list of words
I'm writing a program to split the words contained in an hashtag.
For example I want to split the hashtags:
#Whatthehello #goback
into:
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Regex to first match, then replace found matches
In my C# program I am using Regular expressions to:
Loop through a list of possible words in need of replacing.
For each word, to find out if a string I am given has any matches.
If it does, I ...
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Syntax highlighter for HTML and PHP
I've created a JavaScript application to highlight the syntax of HTML and PHP. I know a lot of syntax highlighter are available nowadays, I just created to extend my knowledge in JS and regular ...
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Highlight specific words in a sentence with diacritrics
I am searching for some improvements, particularly in the regex, in the way I highlight specific words in a string.
I have keywords into my database stored without any diacritrics
The user comes ...
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Truncating article text
I need to show article's content based on this logic:
if article's content has to be truncated (e.g for preview)
if there's [read more] substring in the content
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C# Regex to extract bug ID from Bugzilla JSON response
I have written a series of Regex.Replace() lines to take an input like {"id":36} and convert it to ...
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Multiple regex matches to correct OCR output
Using OCR, my program reads the current selection for each of these categories: format, invert color? and ...
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UK postcode validation and format correction tool
I've been working on a regex-based UK postcode validation and format correction tool - with the aim of creating a list of postcodes that can be readily geocoded. The variety of postcode formats is ...
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Simple lexical analysis - basic calculator
I recently found an interesting series that describes the specifics of how interpreters and compilers work, explaining each step (with code) and encouraging the reader to do exercises.
My code is ...
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Multiple regex replacements
I receive a string with a lot of characters that I don't need and I am trying to remove them and replace them with characters that I am able to work with. My current structure has me redefining the ...
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Number to Roman numerals
I've been working on numerals conversion lately. Now the JavaScript course I'm following asked me to do something similar for Roman numerals.
To keep things fresh and given the amount of test-cases ...
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Read through a log file to find “Fail” lines
Please bear with me, I'm only about a week into Python.
This code is something that I wanted to do once I completed the chapters dealing with opening and reading files, and RegEx. I always feel like ...
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RFC 2812 message validation regex
In my ongoing quest for an IRC client, I'm working on more stringent validation per RFC 2812. As with everything else I'm doing on this project, I'm trying to implement it all from scratch for the ...
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Parsing “mailto:”
Can you help me to review my "mailto:"-parsing function ?
Since I'm trying to write less code, that is as simple as possible.
I'm not sure there if there is some bug or better solution.
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PHP class for reading DTD
A very long time ago, I started development of a code generator for HTML. And some time ago I rewrote it and published it under LGPL v3.0 on Sourceforge.net.
It is very universal because one of its ...
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Cancel those hung print jobs
I've created a program that will list all hung print jobs on a specified server, from there it will load them and strip the jobs down to their Job ID then cancel ...
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Convert a string into an R vector expression
Problem: Given a arbitrary string, split by a given regex and format into an R vector expression. E.g. Convert "a..,b..,c,d" into 'c("a","b","c","d")', when the given regex is "[.,]+".
Solution in ...
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Replacing multiple search strings simultaneously
A utility method StringUtils.replace to replace multiple search strings simultaneously.
I'm looking for a review of any and all aspects, but especially:
Is ...
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Count the occurence of nucleobases in DNA string
Inspired by this meta question I decided to take a look at Rosalind. Their first challenge seemed easy enough:
An example of a length 21 DNA string (whose alphabet contains the symbols 'A', 'C', ...
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Multi-dimensional array sort and filter functions
As I said in my last post Multi-dimensional ascending and descending sort array function, I'm back with the final version of the code.
Added features:
Filter array function by following parameters: ...
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Address filter with PHP using regex
I developed a PHP function to get a not formatted address and split it in a street name and number.
Following are some patterns of received addresses
StreetName Number
SrtreetName, Number
Number ...
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Find missing web-pages
You are writing your web-page and relentlessly adding links, as you think that links are the best thing a web-page can offer.
The fact is that you write links even to pages that do not exist just ...
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What a crooked way to compute the next straight string (advent of code 11)
This year I have been participating in the Advent of Code series of challenges, and it just so happened that I'd be doing them in Javascript. Not my usual weapon of choice, but I do have some ...
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Solution to part 1 of Day 7 Advent of Code in Scala
Does someone want to review my solution to part 1 of Day 7 Advent of Code in Scala?
The assignment is here: http://adventofcode.com/day/7
Without repeating the whole text, in short:
Given a text file ...
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Tokenize s-expressions in Rust
I'm writing an s-expression tokenizer in Rust.
I have the following code written, but it is not idiomatic Rust - it is quite ugly. TokenizerI is simply an ...
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MongoDB - Find records in one collection that match string in 2nd collection
I have a MongoDB collection of product IDs/unique products attributes and a second collection of codes that relate to attributes common for products whose IDs are prefixed with those codes.
For ...
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Re-arranging an obfuscated address
I'm getting address (physical address, not digital) input that's obfuscated, and looks like the following:
The plaintext version:
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Regex password strength test
I've been following a Python programming book and reached the Regex chapter where I encountered this challenge:
Write a password strength checker that checks if a password is:
At least 8 ...
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Port of NLTK tokenizing code from Python to Rust
I'm working on a port of NLTK to Rust.
I am fairly new to Rust, so I wanted to post a small file to check if I was writing idiomatic Rust. I've included the original Python. The Python has docstrings ...
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It'th wabbit theathon
I don't know regex. I want to learn regex, but learning regex just for the sake of regex would be quite boring.
So I decided to learn Ruby as well (which so far looks a lot like Python, which I'm ...
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Replacing the second word of some matching lines in a file
I have a file that at some point contains a line of the following form:
OutputFilename output.root
I want to write a Python function that replaces the text after ...
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PatternMatcher class
I thought of writing a utility class where I can implement patterns that are useful for day-to-day parsing of strings, without having to to import java.util.regex ...
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Variable length string validation against whitelisted characters
I need to validate a variable length string against some white-listed characters. The algorithm that I have works but I have a sneaking suspicion that there is a more elegant solution. The code below ...
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UrlRouter which uses regular expressions to find out what to do
I have created UrlRouter. It should call appropriate controllers methods with extracted values as a parameters. It works fine, but my boss told me that I should ...
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Convert string to spinal case
Due to an excercise, I've made a function that converts given string to spinal case just-like-this-one (all lower case).
I did it with two regular expressions. Can ...
