As part of a larger series of operations, I'm trying to take tokenized chunks of a larger string and get rid of punctuation, non-word gobbledygook, etc. My initial attempt used String#gsub and the \W regexp character class, like so: my_str = "Hello," processed = my_str.gsub(/\W/,'') puts processed # => Hello Super, super, super simple...
I am looking for a regular expression (or other method if there is such a thing) for detecting bounce email messages. So far I have been going through our unattended mail box and adding strings that I find into a regex. I figured someone would have something that is already complete rather than me re-inventing the wheel. Here is an exam...
Is this regular expression enough to catch all cross site scripting attempts when embedding HTML into the DOM. eg: Such as with document.write() (javascript:|<\s*script.*?\s*>) It is referenced in this document from modsecurity.com http://www.modsecurity.org/documentation/Ajax%5FFingerprinting%5Fand%5FFiltering%5Fwith%5FModSecurity%5...
I am processing strings with a date somewhere in it. There are different ways the date can appear in this string: "… 01.11.2009 18:00-21:00 …" or "… 01.11.2009 18:00-02.11.2009 15:00 …" or "… 01.11.2009 18:00 …" Regardless how the date appears I only need the beginning date "01.11.2009 18:00". So if there are two matches it's just...
I'm trying to split a sizeable string every four characters. This is how I'm trying to do it: big_string.split(/..../) This is yielding a nil array. As far as I can see, this should be working. It even does when I plug it into an online ruby regex test. ...
This regex: ^((https?|ftp)\:(\/\/)|(file\:\/{2,3}))?(((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3} (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?))|(((([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(\.)?)+?)(\.)([a-z]{2} |com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|museum))([a-zA-Z0-9\?\=\...
I am learning regular expressions and having a hard time. Can anyone tell me if I'm on the right path with these two problems? -List the words in the language specified by the regular expression (a|b)(c|elipson) -- I am thinking the answer is ac, bc, a,b. Am I right? -Give a regular expression recognizing all words with an odd number o...
Hi All, <add key="Key1" value="Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;data source=serveripaddress;Initial Catalog=DB1;user id=uid;Password=***"/> I gave the above string,I want to get the serveripaddress,DB1,uid and **** these values from that string. ...
Hey there, I'm trying to write a regular expression for a code like this: <tr> <td>I'm some text</td> <td>1234</td> <td>1231</td> </tr> <tr> <td>I'm some text</td> <td>1234</td> <td>1231</td> <td>7181</td> </tr> (I know, bad html code... ) Now I want an expression that looks for every table row and can han...
i have a validation in my .net textbox where it will take only numbers but when i put the the phone format like 080 234234 it will not accept because of a space how to resolve this ? could anyone help in regular expression ? Current expression is this [0-9]+ ...
i have a validation in my .net textbox where it will take only numbers but when i put the the phone format like 080 234234 it will not accept because of a space how to resolve this ? could anyone help in regular expression ? Current expression is this [0-9]+ i want only single space ... no two spaces should be encoraged ...
Views - Fields: I want to remove a certain matching word from a returned string by using the "Rewrite the output of this field". Is there extended syntax for this or is there a way to use php string-functions/regex in this field? ...
Hello, I need to pull out the content out of two paragraph tags and break it with a <br /> tag. The input is like so <p> Yay </p> <p> StackOverFlow </p> It needs to be like <p> Yay <br /> StackOverflow </p> What I have so far is <p><?php preg_match('/<p>(.*)<\/p>/', $content, $match); echo($match[1])."..."; ?></p> Which pulls the ...
How can I create a regex expression which will match only letters and numbers, and one space between each word? Good Examples: Amazing Hello Beautiful World I am 13 years old Bad Examples: Hello world I am 13 years old. I am Chuck Norris ...
I have an unfinished binary file that has some info that I can recover using regex. The contents are: G $12.Angry.Men.1957.720p.HDTV.x264-HDLH Lhttp://site.com/forum/f89/12-angry-men-1957-720p-hdtv-x264-hdl-538403/ L I Š M ,ABBA.The.Movie.1977.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-iONN Phttp://site.com/forum/f89/abba-movie-1977-...
Hi, I'm writing an application in PHP, and I need to replace any word between <!-- * and * --> with it's correspondenting element in $vars. For example, <!-- *foobar* --> In this case 'foobar' must be replaced by the variable $vars["foobar"]'s value. This is what I have now, but it does not work (it always returns <> :( ): preg_repl...
It's been 10 years since I looked at c. I need to write a little program in c that parses a string. I wanted to use regular expressions since I've been using them for years, but I have no idea how to do that in c. I've spent the morning Googling and I can't find any straight forward examples (ie. use this library, this is the methodol...
In Vim I have: simulación (fig.),pretexto (fig.),excusa (fig.). My goal is: simulación ,pretexto ,excusa . I have tried with: :%s/\(fig\.\)//g, but it doesn't work. Thanks in advance! Ps: sorry my english ...
I need to parse out the string that has following structure x:{a,b,c,}, y:{d,e,f} etc. where all entries are numbers so it would look something like this 411:{1,2,3},241:{4,1,2} etc. Forgot to mention: number of comma delimited entries in between {} has no upper limit but has to have at least one entry. I need to get the unique l...
How to write a regular expression that match " 0-9()+-*/. " ...