Hi, It has a been a long day but I cannot seem to choose in my own head which is better or if I should use both. Basically what should I use to sanitize user inputted values. Is it either the htmlentities or preg_match function ? I will then if the value goes into a sql query use the mysql_real_escape_string function but only until I...
Hi. I want to parse a css file and multiply each pixel value by (2/3). I was wondering if this was possible with sed? I know this is incorrect syntax but i think it'll bring home the explanation of what i want to achieve: sed -e "s|\([0-9]*\)px|int((\1 * 2)/3)|g" file.css So basically I want to take \1, multiply it by (2/3) and cas...
Who can help me to translate this XML Schema pattern "[0-9]+-([0-9]|K)" to java regular expression? ...
If a user types a really long string it doesn't move onto a 2nd line and will break a page on my site. How do I take that string and remove it completely if it's not a URL? ...
RegularExpressionValidator.ValidationExpression="\d{10}" means only digits - 10 max. RegularExpressionValidator.ValidationExpression="\d{10,12}" means only digits - 10, 11 or 12. How to force strictly 10 or 12 symbols? ...
I'm trying to find a quick and easy way to validate some inputs with jquery. I just need to make sure that a field excepts only numerical values and only 4 integers long, basically a year. I want to do this with jquery and can't find just a simple solution. I'm guessing you use filter? $(document).ready(function() $(input#year).fil...
Im not sure how I can achieve this match expression. Currently I am using, ([A-Za-z0-9-]+) ...which matches letters and numbers. I would also like to match on dashes and underscores in the same expression. Anyone know how? I would like to be able to match product_name and product-name Thanks! George ...
Are there common patterns that people often use regex for (Java flavor) that is usually: incorrect due to various corner cases (but works "most of the time") correct but very slow etc... Also, more generally, what other tips are there for people who use regex-es in Java? I find that I often struggle due to: lack of named capturing ...
I am sending a var to Flash: // incoming var pageColor:String = "rgb(81, 89, 112)"; I have this function to covert the RGB values to a HEX function rgb2hex(r:Number, g:Number, b:Number) { return '0x'+(r << 16 | g << 8 | b).toString(16).toUpperCase(); } // trace(rgb2hex(81, 89, 112)); Now I am looking for the best way to extract...
Is there any way to find out what was substituted for (the "old" text) after applying the s/// operator? I tried doing: if (s/(\w+)/new/) { my $oldTxt = $1; # ... } But that doesn't work. $1 is undefined. ...
If I have a simple table where the data is such that the rows contains strings like: /abc/123/gyh/tgf/345/6yh/5er In SQL, how can I select out the data between the 5th and 6th slash? Every row I have is simply data inside front-slashes, and I will only want to select all of the characters between slash 5 and 6. ...
Why is it that JSLint returns a 'Bad escapement' on the following JavaScript line ? param = param.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]"); From JSLint documentation I thought that this would be ok since the regex literal is preceeded by a parenthesis: Regular expressions are written in a terse and cryptic notation. JSLint ...
I have a log function on my admin panel that checks user input for being correct and, if not correct, writes it to a log file. This log file is written to the admin when logged in. I was testing my site for vulnerabilities, and I managed to fully exploit my server using an XSS hole. I tried to filter logged input by checking the input t...
Is it possible to make use of Visual Studio 2005/2008 "Find" and "Replace" functionality along with regular expression to replace multiple lines of already coded C# code into a single line of code? Note that Visual Studio's "Find" and "Replace" regular expression syntax differs from .NET Framework. ...
some text I want to capture. <tag> junk I don't care about</tag> more stuff I want. Is there a easy way to write a regex that captures the first and third sentences in one capture? ...
Hi, I have a longer text and some keywords. I want to highlight these keywords in my text. That is no problem with this code: private static string HighlightKeywords2(string keywords, string text) { // Swap out the ,<space> for pipes and add the braces Regex r = new Regex(@", ?"); key...
consider the following code: perl -wne 'chomp;print if m/[^(?:test)]/' I was surprised to see that grouping inside a character class works, How does this differ from (?!pattern)? ...
so if i have the text: "this is going to be really great" and i have the needle "goi" i want it to find going and then replace it with the link <a href="http://wwww.something.com/going">going</a> can you help me? i am really bad in regex ...
What does (?<=x) mean in regex? By the way, I have read the manual here. ...
I'd like to highlight long sentences (say, 50 words or greater) contained in an array of paragraph objects on a page, ie $("#content p"). I'm not sure how to tackle this. I originally tried to highlight all sentences, but ran in trouble when they contained HTML tags (example highlighting code on the net seem to be for individual words o...