What is this user-input regex checking for? /^[^<">]*$/
This regex is used to check some user input: /^[^<">]*$/ What is it checking for? ...
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regex not preceeded by a word
I need to find all the strings in a set of c# files, unless they are inside a Contract.Require statement. There could be any amount of text in the string, so between the " and ", and any amount of text between the string and the Contract.Require. I have this: /".+"/ which finds strings, but I need to refine my search. Is this even p...
How can I interpolate an array of alternations into a Perl regex?
Is it possible to do: @foo = getPileOfStrings(); if($text =~ /@foo(*.?)@foo/) { print "Sweet, you grabbed a $1! It lived between the foos!"; } What's going on here is I need a $text =~ /($var1|$var2|$var3)(*.?)($var1.../; I don't know how many values there are, and I don't know the values until run-time. Array interpolation into a ...
Match all urls that aren't wrapped into <a> tag
Hi all! I am seeking for a regular expression pattern that could match urls in HTML that aren't wrapped into 'a' tag, in order to wrap them into 'a' tag further (i.e. highlight all non-highlighted links). Input is simple HTML with 'a', 'b', 'i', 'br', 'p' 'img' tags allowed. All other HTML tags shouldn't appear in the input, but tags m...
Why does my Perl regex cause an infinite loop?
I have some code that grabs the "between" of some text; specifically, between a foo $someword and the next foo $someword. However, what happens is it gets stuck at the first "between" and somehow the internal string position doesn't get incremented. The input data is a text file with newlines here and there: they are rather irrelevant,...
Multi line js regex replacement in Internet explorer
I'm trying to replace something multi line in Javascript, IE is giving me trouble. pastebin here:http://jsbin.com/olahi/edit Explanation of what I'm trying to do: Here's my HTML: <textarea id="editthis"> Hello from JS Bin Whats up from JS Bin Whats up from JS Bin </textarea > And my JS: jQuery.fn.runReplacement= function(expr) { ...
Conditional regex replace if value less than "nnnn"
Hi there, Not sure if this is possible with a regular expression replace command, but I have an existing regex replace which will convert the last two digits of a number to the same last two digits prefixed with a full stop. This is for interfacing to a system which sends through currency values as "2500" where this represents "25.00" ...
Regular expression in JavaScript - Replace Image src attribute
In JavaScript I have a string containing a DOM fragment. How would I find and replace the src attribute of an image? I would like to replace the path of all images with a new path but keeping the image name. Not all the paths are the same and can come from various locations. My regular expression skills are poor at best. For example: ...
Python re question - sub challenge
I want to add a href links to all words prefixed with # or ! or @ If this is the text Check the #bamboo and contact @Fred re #bamboo #garden should be converted to: Check the <a href="/what/bamboo">#bamboo</a> and contact <a href="/who/fred">@Fred</a> re <a href="/what/bamboo">#bamboo</a> <a href="/what/garden">#garden</a> Note that...
Matching numbers in a string of a certain length with regex
Say i have a string like this: "23423423" and i want to find all numbers with length of 2 with regex like this "[0-9]{2}" Now in my texteditor this gives me 7 matches: 23, 34, 42, 23, 34, 42, 23 however in c# i seem to be only getting 4 23, 42, 34, 42 I need the first scenario but cannot find a solution. I have tried regex.Match() ...
What regex can I use to capture groups from this string?
Assume the following strings: A01B100 A01.B100 A01 A01............................B100 ( whatever between A and B ) The thing is, the numbers should be \d+, and in all of the strings A will always be present, while B may not. A will always be followed by one or more digits, and so will B, if present. What regex could I use to capture...
Whats wrong with this jQuery validation code? regexp.exec(value)
Value will be anything and matches is null. The point of this is to split up a string like "1991-12-01" and make sure that all of the parts of the string are valid dates. dateISO: function(value, element) { if (this.optional(element)) return true; var regexp = new RegExp('^\d{4}[\/-](\d{1,2})[\/-](\d{1,2})$'); var matches = ...
Match all subdomains except one in mod_rewrite
Ok, so I'm doing a mod_rewrite, and I'm in a situation to where I need to match any subdomain except for one. It starts out looking like this. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.example\.com$ [NC] So that matches and captures a single subdomain, no periods. But let's say I don't want to match the submdomain named 'dog'. I tried to do...
How to pull the file name from a url using javascript/jquery?
A certain variable might contain a relative path or an absolute path. Either way, I need to be able to pull the filename from the variable: http://www.somesite.com/dir1/dir2/filename.gif /dir1/dir2/filename.gif The directory structure is also arbitrary. So basically given either of the url's above (with arbirtrary directory structur...
URL Rewrite to exclude existing directories
I'm trying to redirect URLs from example.net/customname or example.net/customname/ to example.net/my/home.php?username=customname . This in itself is not complicated: RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ my/home.php?username=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ my/home.php?username=$1 However, I want to exclude my existing directories and fi...
How do I parse YAML with nil values?
I apologize for the very specific issue I'm posting here but I hope it will help others that may also run across this issue. I have a string that is being formatted to the following: [[,action1,,],[action2],[]] I would like to translate this to valid YAML so that it can be parsed which would look like this: [['','acton1','',''],['ac...
How can I verify that user name starts with a letter and contains only alphanumeric characters?
I am using Jquery Validation. Currently, I have a username, what i want to validate for this username is: Not blank Availability No whitespaces, I add this method: $.validator.addMethod("nowhitespace", function(value, element) { return this.optional(element) || /^\S+$/i.test(value); }, " No white space please"); Alphanumeric ...
How do I put CDATA on Yahoo! Pipes?
I've generated a feed from GameTraillers.com for my favorite show there — ScrewAttack. But the embed option doesn't show up on Google Reader because the embedded video is in another castle tag: item.exInfo:fileType.embedcode. I've managed to find the tag where the embed code is, removed the "<![CDATA[" and "]]$gt;" from that tag with Re...
C# How to delete XML/HTML comments with regular expression
The fragment below doesn't work for me. fragment = Regex.Replace(fragment, "<!--.*?-->", String.Empty , RegexOptions.Multiline ); ...
How can I make my match non greedy?
I have a big HTML file that has lots of markup that looks like this: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">stuff here</span> </p> I'm trying to do a Vim search-and-replace to get rid of all class="" and style="" but I'm having trouble making the match ungreed...