I would like to write a regular expression in javascript to match specific text, only when it is not part of an html link, i.e. match <a href="/link/page1">match text</a> would not be matched, but match text or <p>match text</p> would be matched. (The "match text" will change each time the search is run - I will use something l...
I have a lot of movies in directories with filenames containing their dimensions. descriptor-800x600.mov cool_animation-720p.mp4 reactor-1080p.mov test-640x480.mov I'm looking to pull out the 800, 600 from #1. 720 from #2, 1080 from #3, etc. Looking for some help to tweak what I've got so far: $re = '/^(.*?)\-(\d{3,4})p+|(\d{2,...
If I have various strings that have text followed by whitespace followed by text, how can I parse the substring beginning with the first character in the second block of text? For example: If I have the string: "stringA stringB" How can I extract the substring "stringB" The strings are of various lengths but will all be of...
Hi! I am creating a small application that will open a word document, scan it for a credit card number (different patterns), replace the text, save and close the document. My code is fairly simple: using System; using System.IO; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using ...
I have the following URL: http://www.domain.com/keyword/b21?f=&ca1=50&p=1 And the RewriteRule I am trying to use is as follows: RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/b([0-9]+)?f=([^.]+)&p=([0-9]+)$ script.php?id=$2&p=$2&filters=$3 Unfortunately this rule is not matching the URL. I think it has something to do with the ? as i know this is a c...
We are currently migrating one of our oracle databases to UTF8 and we have found a few records that are near the 4000 byte varchar limit. When we try and migrate these record they fail as they contain characters that become multibyte UF8 characters. What I want to do within PL/SQL is locate these characters to see what they are and then...
Is there any way to have an expression in brackets not be caught in a group? E.g. i have an expression something like this: (A(B|C)?) D (E(F|G)?) Take note of the optional blocks (B|C)? and (F|G)? needing brackets. I'm not interested in what was caught in these groups. All i want is to catch the full first and last block. But becaus...
Hey, How do I a string against a regex such that it will return true if the whole string matches (not a substring)? eg: test( \ee\ , "street" ) #=> returns false test( \ee\ , "ee" ) #=> returns true! Thank you. ...
Hello! I want to parse some C source files and find all strings ("foo"). Something like that works String line = "myfunc(\"foo foo foo\", \"bar\");"; System.out.println(line); String patternStr = "\\\"([^\"]+)\\\""; Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternStr); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(""); String s; if(line.matches(".*"+pat...
If I am creating a simple web scraper (from root url, grab all links, then from those links grab all emails) would it be worthwhile to use HTML Agility Pack? I am not actually looking through HTML tags, I am simply looking to scan for emails within the entire document. Would it be more efficient to use HTML agility pack? I am stripping...
I'm trying to build an alternative data entry, wherein the user will express some sort of command, that i'll parse. Rather than go into the details of the vocabulary I would be using in this effort here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish with appoligies to Rex Harrison. given the following sentences the rain in spain fal...
I have many html documents, I need to replace the text "foo" to "bar" in all documents, except in links For example foo<a href="foo.com">foo</a> should be raplaced to bar<a href="foo.com">bar</a> the url in the link (foo.com) should be left untouched. The same case in image links and links to javascripts or stylesheets, only th...
var aText:String = "C:\\folder\\folder\\file"; var filterVal:String = aText.toLowerCase().replace( /\//g, '/'); trace( aText ); trace( filterVal ); results as: C:\folder\folder\file c:\folder\folder\file this code was based on this site and nascent regex skills. What am I doing wrong? Thank you. ...
I would like to write a regular expression to validate and input field against the following arguments: field is required (cannot be empty) field must not be a negative number field must be a validate decimal number to two decimals (eg. 1 or 1.3 or 1.23) field can be any valid number between 0 and 100 or an 'e' ...
I'm sure this is trivial, but I'm unable to create a regex that takes into account that the subject consists of multiple lines. The "m" modifier for one does not seem to work. ...
I have a long string, and I'd like to loop through it and pull out all the int values in order. This seems simple enough, but I can't seem to figure it out. string raw = "I am a string and I have some numbers 3 45 333 2 39 inside of me 1839 9303, and I'd like to get these numbers into 9 -10 00 9e09 into a string[] or something else"; ...
I am trying to build a regular expression to replace unresolved velocity variables with the syntax required by other parameterized variable frameworks such as spring jdbc and hibernate. Essentially, I want a replacement pattern to find and replace ${a} with :a, ${b} with :b, etc. ...
I have a comment block that can look like this; /** * variable1: value * variable2: value */ or like this; /* variable1: value variable2: value */ What I need is to be able to match any number of variable/value pairs and add them to an array. I can't seem to figure it out though, I keep matching the wrong things. All variables ...
I'm trying to create a textmate snippet that will transform this: HELLO WORLD<br /> SAY ANYTHING To this: hello world say anything Any help? ...
Is it possible/practical to build a single regular expression that matches hierarchical data? For example: <h1>Action</h1> <h2>Title1</h2><div>data1</div> <h2>Title2</h2><div>data2</div> <h1>Adventure</h1> <h2>Title3</h2><div>data3</div> I would like to end up with matches. "Action", "Title1", "data1" "Action", "Title2", "data...