I'm displaying the date and time like this 24-Nov-2009 17:57:35 I'd like to convert it to a unix timestamp so I can manipulate it easily. I'd need to use regex to match each part of the string then work out the unix timestamp from that. I'm awful with regex but I came up with this. Please suggest improvements ^.^ /((\d){2}+)-((Ja...
I am trying to write a RegEx in .Net to capture the whole function from a list of function that look something like this. public string Test1() { string result = null; foreach(var item in Entity.EntityProperties) { result +=string.Format("inner string with bracket{0}", "test"); } return result; } public string Test5() { return str...
How can I explode a string by one or more spaces or tabs? Example: A B C D I want to make this an array. ...
I'm new to regex with PHP. How can I find the contents of the first parentheses with a string that is a couple of paragraphs long. I'm assuming I have to use the preg_match function ...
Hey, It's not really scraping, I'm just trying to find the URLs in a web page where the class has a specific value. For example: <a class="myClass" href="/url/7df028f508c4685ddf65987a0bd6f22e"> I want to get the href value. Any ideas on how to do this? Maybe regex? Could you post some example code? I'm guessing html scraping libs, su...
I receive a block of code from db which occasionally contains urls, e.g, http://site.tld/lorem.ipsum/whatever Now I want to turn this into nice clickable link for the user, with a helper method. Such as: <a href="http://site.tld/lorem.ipsum/whatever">http://site.tld/lorem.ipsum/whatever</a> Of course, anyone can do this, [^\s...
How can I retrieve all lines of a document containing "strA", but not "strB", in the Visual Studio search box? ...
Hi, Can I ask for a pointer re C# and Regex. I've got the routine that works ok below that finds links within CSS. If I wanted to rewrite the links I find as I go through, and then have a copy of a string at the end of this that represents the initial CSS text but with the rewritten links in place how would I do this? var resultL...
So, here's my question: I have a crawler that goes and downloads web pages and strips those of URLs (for future crawling). My crawler operates from a whitelist of URLs which are specified in regular expressions, so they're along the lines of: (http://www.example.com/subdirectory/)(.*?) ...which would allow URLs that followed the patt...
I was wondering if there are any general guidelines for when to use regex VS "string".contains("anotherString") and/or other String API calls? While above given decision for .contains() is trivial (why bother with regex if you can do this in a single call), real life brings more complex choices to make. For example, is it better to do t...
This is my string: <br/><span style=\'background:yellow\'>Some data</span>,<span style=\'background:yellow\'>More data</span><br/>(more data)<br/>'; I want to produce this output: Some data,More data Right now, I do this in PHP to filter out the data: $rePlaats = "#<br/>([^<]*)<br/>[^<]*<br/>';#"; $aPlaats = array(); preg_match...
hi all, i'm writing a little app for spam-checking and i'm having problems with a regex. let's say i'm having this spam-url: http://hosting.tyumen.ru/tip.html so i want to check its url for having 2 full stops (subdomain+ending), a slash, a word, full stop and "html". here's what i got so far: <a href="(http://.*?\..*?..*?/.*?.htm...
Hi, I've this regex (which doesn't do what i want): /^.*\/(eu|es)(?:\/)?([^#]*).*/ which actually is the js version of: /^.*/(eu|es)(?:/)?([^#]*).*/ Well, it doesn't do what i want, of course it works. :) Given this URLs: http://localhost/es -> [1] = es, [2] = '' http://localhost/eu/bla/bla#wop -> [1] = eu, [2] = 'bla/bla' http://loc...
How do I convert the regular expression \w+ To give me the whole words in Unicode – not just ASCII? I use .net ...
Hi, I have used the following pattern for the regular expression for the phone number pattern="[0-9 -+]+$"; The phone number may contain numbers, hyphen(-), space and plus(+). It works when i use numbers only. When numbers and alphabets are used it does not work. What can be the problem, please do let me know. Thanks in advanc...
Hi! Do you know any easy way to remove (or replace) all non alphanumeric characters from varchar variable in Mysql? something like String's replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "I") in Java ('I' is my special character but "" would be also good ) ...
I've been trying to dry up the following regexp that matches hashtags in a string with no success: /^#(\w+)|\s#(\w+)/i This won't work: /^|\s#(\w+)/i And no, I don't want to comma the alternation at the beginning: /(^|\s)#(\w+)/i I'm doing this in Ruby - though that should not be relevant I suppose. To give some examples of mat...
Edit2: only regex match solutions, please. thank you! Edit: I'm looking for regex solution, if it's exist. I have other blocks with the same data that are not XML, and I can't use Perl, I added Perl tag as I'm more familiar with regexes in Perl. Thanks in advance! I Have list like this: <Param name="Application #" value="1"> <Param ...
Hi, i have a c# regex, which gives me all uri's in a document. it's this: <a[^>]*\shref=[\""\'][^>]*" this one works, but i want to exclude al uri's (matches) which have the word 'doubleclick.net' in it, because those uri's i want to leave untouched, and the others i want to add some code to. i've tried this: ((?!doubleclick.net...
My string of text looks like this [email protected] (John Doe) I need to get just the part before the @ and nothing else. The text is coming from a simple xml object if that matters any. The code i ahve looks like this $authorpre = $key->{"author"}; $re1='((?:[a-z][a-z]+))'; if ($c=preg_match_all ("/".$re1."/is", $authorpre, $matc...