What is the difference between the search() and match() functions in the Python re module? I've read the documentation, but I never seem to remember it. I keep having to look it up and re-learn it. I'm hoping that someone will answer it clearly with examples so that (perhaps) it will stick in my head. Or at least I'll have a better p...
In javascript, I've got a block of HTML like this: <h2>{title}</h2> <p><a href="{url}">{content}</a></p> And I'm trying use regex "match" to spit out an array of all the {item}'s. So my output should look like: ['title', 'url', 'content'] I've gotten as far as: var pattern = new RegExp("\{[a-zA-Z]+\}+"); var match = pattern.exec("...
I have the following regex: (?!^[&#]$)^([A-Za-z0-9-'.,&@:?!()$#/\])$ So allow A-Z, a-Z, 0-9, and these special chars '.,&@:?!()$#/\ I want to NOT match if the following set of chars is encountered anywhere in the string in this order: &# When I run this regex with just "&#" as input, it does not match my pattern, I get an error...
I'd like to be able to use php search an array (or better yet, a column of a mysql table) for a particular string. However, my goal is for it to return the string it finds and the number of matching characters (in the right order) or some other way to see how reasonable the search results are, so then I can make use of that info to decid...
I tried the code unsuccessfully :%s/\n/*\n/g ...
example strings 785*()&!~`a ##$%$~2343 455frt&*&* i want to capture the first and the third but not the second since it doesnt contain any alphabet character plz help ...
How can you count the number of matches in Vim? For instance, for the text <? ...
I tried the following code unsuccessfully after using ls -1 awk -F '\n' '{ print $1 }' How can I get the first row in terminal? ...
We are using FW2.0 web application which is developed using VS2005. Our win2003 server had Windows update on last week with FW3.5 SP1, after that we struck-up in web application login issue. Basically our application works with both windows authentication as well anonyms But after install the FW3.5 SP1, the windows integrated authenti...
I need to get all text between <Annotation> and </Annotation>, where a word MATCH occurs. How can I do it in VIM? <Annotation about="MATCH UNTIL </Annotation> " timestamp="0x000463e92263dd4a" href=" 5raS5maS90ZWh0YXZha29rb2VsbWEvbGFza2FyaS8QyrqPk5L9mAI"> <La...
The current implementation of Remy Sharp's jQuery tag suggestion plugin only checks for matches at the beginning of a tag. For example, typing "Photoshop" will not return a tag named "Adobe Photoshop". By default, the search is case-sensitive. I have slightly modified it to trim excess spaces and ignore case: for (i = 0; i < tagsToSear...
I have a site that allows users to copy and paste the embeded video script that youtube provides and upload it to a database. I want to be able to check that this script is valid youtube script and not just random text that someone typed in. I believe this can be done with preg match. Any ideas? ...
Hi all! :) i'm writing my anti spam/badwors filter and i need if is possible, to match (detect) only words formed by mixed characters like: fr1&nd$ and not friends is this possible with regex!? best regards! ...
Please help I am working with a file whose lines of data look like the one below. As can be seen, the data is divided into 4 by '|||', so I will have four arrays( if I divide it). what I want is this: I want to check if there are punctuation marks in the first array, if there is one, remember the position in the array. Go to the same ...
I'm new to XSLT and I can't figure out how to get an xsl:if that matches when there are no child tags. I want this to match: <context> howdy </context> And this not: <context> <child> howdy </child> </context> ...
I have this array.prototype on my page and it seems to be sucking up a lot of processing time: Array.prototype.findInArray = function(searchStr) { var returnArray = false; for (i=0; i<this.length; i++) { if (typeof(searchStr) == 'function') { if (searchStr.test(this[i])) { if (!returnArray) { r...
I'm trying to understand the implementation of Lists in Scala. In particular I'm trying to get my head around how you can write match expressions using an infix operator, for example: a match { case Nil => "An empty list" case x :: Nil => "A list without a tail" case x :: xs => "A list with a tail" } How is the match expression ...
I'm looking for a way to matching a string that may contain an integer value. If so, parse it. I'd like to write code similar to the following: def getValue(s: String): Int = s match { case "inf" => Integer.MAX_VALUE case Int(x) => x case _ => throw ... } The goal is that if the string equals "inf", return In...
Is there a simple way to count the number of occurences of all elements of a list into that same list in C#? Something like this: using System; using System.IO; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; string Occur; List<string> Words = new List<string>(); List<string> Occurrences = new...
The theme is i opened a file and get all it's data into string and i am matching this string with the regex returning none. But the same regex in PHP is returning values for the same text using preg_match_all. Anyone having a idea? ...