Sample input: Did xxx xxx xxx (could be any number of words) live or die? For example: Did Michael Jackson live or die ? I want to capture: Michael Jackson, live, die. The sentence can have any number of spaces between words. How do I do it? ...
In Java's regular expression, I want to match any sentence that contains the word "Mary" and the word "are" in that order, but DOES NOT contain "Bob" in between "Mary" and "are". Eg: Mary and Rob are married - MATCH Eg: Mary and John and Michael became good friends and are living together <- MATCH Eg: Mary, Rob and Bob are dead <- does ...
How do I match a list of words using regular expression. Like I want to match This is a apple This is a orange This is a peach I tried "This is a [apple|range|peach]. Does not work. Any ideas? I've sent 5 hours on this, there are "rules" published, but without exhaustive examples, these rules are too mystic. ...
Hi I have a quite general question about java and regular expression. If we lock at embedded use, say mobile phones with J2ME or Android, how common is it that regexp is included and how resource hungry is it? I mean regular expression is a powerful beast, and a lot of magic is done in the background to make it happen. And my questi...
I have two in a table with ids row_26 and notificationrow_26. I want to highlight row_26. So I use either var deviceUID = 26; $("#row_" + deviceUID).effect("highlight", {}, 3000); OR $("tr[id^='row_"+deviceUID+"']").effect("highlight", {}, 3000); but when I do this. It also highlights the notificationrow_26 . Also the highl...
I would like to add a regular expression to a nattribute from a static class. [RegularExpression(MyRegex.DecimalRegEx)] from a class: public static class MyRegex { public static string Decimal_Between_1_And_100 { get { return (@"^\s*\d+(\.\d{1,2})?\s*$"); ...
Hey everyone, I need to find 1 or more defined groups of characters enclosed in parentheses. If more than one group is present it will be separated with a hyphen. Example: (us) (jp) (jp-us) (jp-us-eu) I've figured out how to find the group if the string only contains one group: /\(us\)|\(jp\)/ However, I am baffled when it comes ...
I am using processing 1.0.6, which runs on java 1.6. I have the following code: Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("func\((.*),(\-?[0-9\.]*),(\-?[0-9\.]*),(\-?[0-9\.]*)\)"); but it gives the error: unexpected char: '(' and highlights the line I pasted above. If I change the offending \( to another character like #, it complains of t...
Is there any method in .net that wraps phrases given a maximum length for each line? Example: Phrase: The quick red fox jumps over the lazy cat Length: 20 Result: The quick red fox jumps over the lazy cat ...
I'd like to write a simple command line proxy in Python to sit between a Telnet/SSH connection and a local serial interface. The application should simply bridge I/O between the two, but filter out certain unallowed strings (matched by regular expressions). (This for a router/switch lab in which the user is given remote serial access to ...
I want to check a string that contains the period, ".", at most once in python. ...
I want a RegEx to match distance values in metric system. This regex should match 12m, 100cm,1km ignoring white space ...
I need to create an dictionary by splitting a string like this: [SenderName] Some name [SenderEmail] Some email address [ElementTemplate] Some text for an element [BodyHtml] This will contain the html body text in multi lines [BodyText] This will be multiline for text body The key could be surrounded by anything if that easier, e.g. ...
I'm trying to use a reusable regex class and use along with DataAnnotations in MVC. Something like: [RegularExpressionAttribute1(typeof(MyRegex))] This compiles but no error is thrown if the property doesn't match. It all works with the standard [RegularExpression(@"^\s*\d+(\.\d{1,2})?\s*$")] ...
A program has users typing in a comma-delimited string into an array: basketball, baseball, soccer ,tennis There may be spaces between the commas or maybe not. If this string was simply split() on the comma, then some of the items in the array may have spaces before or after them. What is the best way of cleaning this up? ...
I was asked this question in an interview for an internship, and probably the first solution I suggested was to try and use a regular expression (I usually am a little stumped in interviews). Something like this (?P<str>[a-zA-Z]+)(?P<n>[0-9]+) I thought it would match the strings and store them in the variable "str" and the numbers in...
I have a Python script that will look at an HTML file that has the following format: <DOC> <HTML> ... </HTML> </DOC> <DOC> <HTML> ... </HTML> </DOC> How do I remove all HTML tags (replace the tags with '') with the exception of the opening and closing DOC tags using regex in Python? Also, if I want to retain the alt-text of an tag, w...
Hello, I have a Website project with a lot of aspx sites. I would like to find out is there any tool that will allow me to remove all white spaces and comments from the aspx files? I don't want to do it on run-time because it's not performance optimal. I would like to do it just before deployment. Is there any ready tool, or should I ...
I'm spending my weekend analyzing Campaign Finance Contribution records. Fun! One of the annoying things I've noticed is that entity names are entered differently: For example, i see stuff like this: 'llc', 'llc.', 'l l c', 'l.l.c', 'l. l. c.', 'llc,', etc. I'm trying to catch all these variants. So it would be something like: "...
I'm trying to do a simple task of altering thousands of music video embed codes with a common with/height. For example, I have the following code: <object width="480px" height="407px" > <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> <param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.mys...