Regular expression for non min files and doesnt contain word

Question

Hey,

Say you have the following in files:

<script src="../../Public/Javascript/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Public/Javascript/jquery.easing-sooper.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Public/Javascript/jquery.easing.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I'm looking for a regex to find the First line (not minified and doesn't contain the word sooper). I would be using this in Visual Studio as an FYI.

Sorry, I need to be more specific. I would be using this in a Visual Studio find, as in control + shift + F, then click the use regular expressions for the find, to find in the project where I have javascript files that are referenced that are not minified. I need the exception b/c some are ok to not be minified.

I'm looking for the lines|matches that:
-have .js somewhere in them
-but not .min.js
-AND Not the word sooper

Thanks again!

I would greatly appreciate it!

Answer 1

<script src="(?:(?!\.min\.|\bsooper\b)[^"])+" type="text/javascript"></script>

will match the first line but not the other two.

I hope I guessed correctly what your requirements are. This regex will match a script tag with any src attribute as long as this attribute doesn't contain either the string .min. or sooper.

Be aware that using regexes to match HTML and other non-regular languages is brittle at best and leads to madness at worst.

Answer 2

You aren't specifying your regex engine.

In my opinion what would work best is using a capturing group for the part in the filename that specifies the jquery version:

jquery([a-zA-Z0-9-.]+).js 

group one in this will yield the part you need to discriminate for.

Now all there is to do is check that string for either min or sooper substrings.

Answer 3

Try this:

\<script src="(~(<(min|sooper)>)[^"])+" type="text/javascript"\>\</script\>

The VS regex flavor has only a passing resemblance to the Perl-derived flavors most of us are used to. Notably, negative lookahead is ~(...), and < and > are word boundaries (start and end), and you have to escape them to match literal angle brackets.

EDIT: This version looks specifically for filenames ending with .js, but not containing min.js.

\<script src="(~(<(min\.js|sooper)>)[^"])+\.js" type="text/javascript"\>\</script\>