Hello, I'm wondering if variable length lookbehind assertions are supported in JavaScript's RegExp engine? For example, I'm trying to match the string "variable length" in the string "[a lot of whitespaces and/or tabs]variable length lookbehind", and I have something like this but it does not go well in various RegExp testers: ^(?<=[ ...
I've got addresses I need to clean up for matching purposes. Part of the process is trimming unwanted suffices from housenumbers, e.g: mainstreet 4a --> mainstreet 4. However I don't want: 618 5th Ave SW --> 618 5 Ave SW in other words there are some strings (for now: st, nd, rd, th) which I don't want to strip. What would b...
I tried this but it doesn't work : [^\s-] Any Ideas? ...
I need a special regular expression and have no experience in them whatsoever, so I am turning to you guys on this one. I need to validate a classifieds title field so it doesn't have any special characters in it, almost. Only letters and numbers should be allowed, and also the three Swedish letters å, ä, ö (upper- or lowercase). Besi...
I need to replace a substring from some string. I've already created corrected code for doing it. But I amn't sure is it best way. Please, see code below: var str = 'test ruby,ruby on rails,ruby,' var substr = 'ruby'; var reg = new RegExp(',' + substr + ',|^' + substr + ',', 'gi'); str.replace(reg, ','); //returns "test ruby,ruby on rai...
I am trying to set up an index page for the weekly magazine I work on. It is to show readers the names of companies mentioned in that weeks' issue, plus the page numbers they are appear on. I want to search all the PDF files for the week, where one PDF = one magazine page (originally made in Adobe InDesign CS3 and Adobe InCopy CS3)....
I have a string like "{some|words|are|here}" or "{another|set|of|words}" So in general the string consists of an opening curly bracket,words delimited by a pipe and a closing curly bracket. What is the most efficient way to get the selected word of that string ? I would like do something like this: @my_string = "{this|is|a|test|case}...
I have an app that enables the user to input a regular expression, my question is how to check against any input of regular expressions and make sure they are valid ones because if they are not there will be preg_match errors. I don't want to use the '@' before preg_match, so if there's a way to check the validity of the user input of r...
Hi. I need reg exspression what make this "123.12312" -> "123.32", or "23.323" -> "23.32" in c#. It must be only 2 digits after point :) ...
Is there a difference between ^[a-zA-Z] and [^a-zA-Z]? When I check in C#, Regex.IsMatch("t", "^[a-zA-Z]") // Return true (I think it's correct) Regex.IsMatch("t", "[^a-zA-Z]") // Return false There are alot of web site using [^a-zA-Z] for alphabet. I'm not really sure which one is correct answer. Could someone please shed the ...
I was using javascript to detect for specific key strokes and while writing the method I thought I'd try regular expressions and the test() method and came up with: if (/8|9|37|38|46|47|48|49|50|51|52|53|54|55|56|57|96|97|98|99|100|101|102|103|104|105|110/.test(num)) { // do something if there's a match } This doesn't seem to work...
solution: this works: String p="<pre>[\\\\w\\\\W]*</pre>"; I want to match and capture the enclosing content of the <pre></pre> tag tried the following, not working, what's wrong? String p="<pre>.*</pre>"; Matcher m=Pattern.compile(p,Pattern.MULTILINE|Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(input); if(m.find()){ ...
Hello guys, I was hoping to get a nice push in the right direction I would like to change the ending of my images sources string... i hope i worded that right. Anyway my current src's are reading: <img src="something/something/12345_m.jpg" /> I would like to change it to: <img src="something/something/12345_t.jpg" /> Any idea guy...
I have the following expression: ^\w(\s(+|-|\/|*)\s\w)*$ This simply looks to match a mathematical expression, where a user is prompted for terms separated by basic operators (ex: price + tax) The user may enter more than just 2 terms and one operator (ex: price + tax + moretax) I tested this expression in Rubular http://rubular.com/...
Hello, <u class="logout" href="/logout.php?h=970c9836674709e6dcdaadd094622fc5&t=1273295318" target="_top">Logout</u> That above is what I want to search for. I want to get h= and t= from that URL, or just get the entire url in href="" How would I do this with regex? ...
I have a section of a book, complete with punctuation, line breaks etc. and I want to be able to extract the first n words from the text, and divide that into 5 parts. Regex mystifies me. This is what I am trying. I creates an array of index size 0, with all the input text: public static String getNumberWords2(String s, int nWords){ ...
@string = "Sometimes some stupid people say some stupid words" @string.enclose_in_brackets("some") # => "Sometimes {some} stupid people say {some} stupid words" How should the method enclose_in_brackets look ? Please keep in mind, I want only enclose whole words, (I don't want "{Some}times {some} stupid....", the "sometimes" word shou...
I have a need of checking whether there is the date in the string or not. FUTIDX 26FEB2009 NIFTY 0 -- There is date in the string. FUTIDX MINIFTY 30 Jul 2009 -- There is date in the string. FUTSTK ONGC 27 Mar 2008 -- There is date in the string. How can I do that ? ...
What should be the regex for matching date of any format like 26FEB2009 30 Jul 2009 27 Mar 2008 29/05/2008 27 Aug 2009 What should be the regular expression for that ? I have regex that matches with 26-Feb-2009 and 26 FEB 2009 with but not with 26FEB2009. So if any one know then please update it. (?:^|[^\d\w:])(?'day'\d{1,2}...
I have a PCRE regex that looks like this s/(<input.+?)alt(=".+?".*?>)/$1title$2/ Can anybody help me with making that work on sed? Eventually can anybody point me to some guide/blog post/whatever that explains differences between sed regex and PCRE? ...