I'm using LINQ to SQL to pull records from a database, sort them by a string field, then perform some other work on them. Unfortunately the Name field that I'm sorting by comes out of the database like this Name ADAPT1 ADAPT10 ADAPT11 ... ADAPT2 ADAPT3 I'd like to sort the Name field in numerical order. Right now I'm using the Regex...
Based on this question it appears that the default template for CheckStyle will allow if else ladders to separate the if and else with a line break. Meaning I would like this code to be flagged as a violation: if (true) { System.out.println("20"); } else if (true) { System.out.println("30"); } Is there a Ch...
Hannuka, Chanukah, Hanukkah...Due to transliteration from another language and character set, there are many ways to spell the name of this holiday. How many legitimate spellings can you come up with? Now, write a regular expression that will recognise all of them. ...
I want to check the following with regular expression {Today,Format} Today - will be remains as it is. In the place of Format, we can allow the digits from 0 to 12. for example: we have to allow {Today,0} {Today,1} {Today,2} ... {Today,12} and also have to allow {Today,} {Today,Format} Please help me and also refer me to some ...
I need to find a reg ex that only allows alphanumeric. So far, everyone I try only works if the string is alphanumeric, meaning contains both a letter and a number. I just want one what would allow either and not require both. Thanks! ...
Whats the best way to separate the string, "Parisi, Kenneth" into "Kenneth" and "Parisi"? I am still learning how to parse strings with these regular expressions, but not too familiar with how to set vars equal to the matched string & output of the matched (or mismatched) string. ...
Hey everyone, I'm working on a PHP application that needs to parse a .tpl file with HTML in it and I'm making it so that the HTML can have variables and basic if statements in it. An if statement look something like this: ` <!--if({VERSION} == 2)--> Hello World <!--endif --> To parse that, I've tried using preg_replace with no luck. T...
I'm trying to convert all instances of the > character to its HTML entity equivalent, >, within a string of HTML that contains HTML tags. The furthest I've been able to get with a solution for this is using a regex. Here's what I have so far: public static readonly Regex HtmlAngleBracketNotPartOfTag = new Regex("(?:<[^>]*(?:>|$...
I have a regex created from a list in a database to match names for types of buildings in a game. The problem is typos, sometimes those writing instructions for their team in the game will misspell a building name and obviously the regex will then not pick it up (i.e. spelling "University" and "Unversity"). Are there any suggestions on ...
I would like to do the following: $find="start (.*) end"; $replace="foo \1 bar"; $var = "start middle end"; $var =~ s/$find/$replace/; I would expect $var to contain "foo middle bar", but it does not work. Neither does: $replace='foo \1 bar'; Somehow I am missing something regarding the escaping. I fixed the missing 's' ...
I have a file containing several lines similar to: Name: Peter Address: St. Serrano número 12, España Country: Spain And I need to extract the address using a regular expression, taking into account that it can contain dots, special characters (ñ, ç), áéíóú... The current code works, but it looks quite ugly:. Pattern p = Pattern.com...
Hello. I have some text with the following structure: Round 1 some multiline text ... Round 2 some multiline text ... ... Round N some multiline text ... I'd like to match rounds with their multiline text. None of the expressions produces correct result: (Round\s\d+)((?!Round).*?) (Round\s\d+)(.*?) Could someone help me? T...
I need to delete some unicode symbols from the string 'بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ' I know they exist here for sure. I try: re.sub('([\u064B-\u0652\u06D4\u0670\u0674\u06D5-\u06ED]+)', '', 'بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ') but it doesn't work. String stays the same. ant suggestion what i do wrong? ...
Hi, I wonder if you anyone can construct a regular expression that can detect if a person searches for something like "site:cnn.com" or "site:www.globe.com.ph/". I've been having the most difficult time figuring it out. Thanks a lot in advance! Edit: Sorry forgot to mention my script is in PHP. ...
I'm making a search function for my website, which finds relevant results from a database. I'm looking for a way to count occurrences of a word, but I need to ensure that there are word boundaries on both sides of the word ( so I don't end up with "triple" when I want "rip"). Does anyone have any ideas? People have misunderstood my ...
I've encountered the need to remove comments of the form: <!-- Foo Bar --> I'd like to use a regular expression that matches anything (including line breaks) between the beginning and end 'delimiters.' What would a good regex be for this task? ...
I'm try to develop a regex that will be used in a C# program.. My initial regex was: (?<=\()\w+(?=\)) Which successfully matches "(foo)" - matching but excluding from output the open and close parens, to produce simply "foo". However, if I modify the regex to: \[(?<=\()\w+(?=\))\] and I try to match against "[(foo)]" it fails to ...
I need to check to see if a variable contains anything OTHER than a-z A-Z 0-9 and the "." character (full stop). Any help would be appreciated. ...
I am tying to make comments in a blog engine XSS-safe. Tried a lot of different approaches but find it very difficult. When I am displaying the comments I am first using Microsoft AntiXss 3.0 to html encode the whole thing. Then I am trying to html decode the safe tags using a whitelist approach. Been looking at Steve Downing's example...
Using a few different patterns but they each come up with this error - so what's wrong? My shortest one to diagnose is: $pattern = "<img([^>]*[^/])>"; preg_match_all($pattern, $subject, $matches); Thanks ...