I have the following Regex (in PHP) that I am using. '/^[a-zA-Z0-9&\'\s]+$/' It currently accepts alpha-numerics only. I need to modify it to accept hyphens (i.e. the character '-' without the quotes obviously) as well. So it will accept strings like 'bart-simpson' OR 'bond-007' etc. Can anyone explain how to modiy the pattern? ...
Hi, I have a div tag, nested with many span and div tags inside it. now i want a regular expression in javascript which will strip the div and the content inside it. thanks in advance.. ...
In my web application, I create some framework that use to bind model data to control on page. Each model property has some rule like string length, not null and regular expression. Before submit page, framework validate any binded control with defined rules. So, I want to detect what character that is allowed in each regular expression...
for below code var str = "I left the United States with my eyes full of tears! I knew I would miss my American friends very much.All the best to you"; var re = new RegExp("[^\.\?!]*(?:[\.\?!]+|\s$)", "g"); var myArray = str.match(re); and This is what I am getting as a result myArray[0] = "I left the United States with my eyes full ...
I need to escape \n so on output I really get newline or tab $ perl -p -e 's/e/a/ge' now I want each e to be substituted with \n $ perl -p -e 's/e/\n/ge' but even \n gives me an error. this was a simplified example. In real script(makefile) I have substitute := perl -p -e 's/@([^@]+)@/defined $$ENV{$$1} ? $$ENV{$$1} : $$1/ge' ...
I have a string with the following information. Obabikon, ON 49°10′N 94°10’W 2278 km N69°W I have a regex search as follows: String LongPattern = @"(~)?([0-9\?])+°([0-9\?])*′[EWO]"; return FindPattern(source, LongPattern); It should be finding the <94°10’W> But is it not. This regex is working for the rest of my data with out any p...
Hi, I have a directory which contains several directories as follows: /Music/ /Music/JoeBlogs-Back_In_Black-1980 /Music/JoeBlogs-Back_In_Black-(Remastered)-2003 /Music/JoeBlogs-Back_In_Black-(ReIssue)-1987 /Music/JoeBlogs-Thunder_Man-1947 I want a script to go through and tell me when there are 'possible' duplicates, in the example ...
New question As suggested by Asaph in previous question: Regex to check if exact string exists I am looking for a way to check if an exact string match exists in another string using Regex or any better method suggested. I understand that you tell regex to match a space or any other non-word character at the beginning or end of a string...
I have a Joomla plugin (not important in this context), which is designed to take an input with a load of numbers (within a paragraph of text) and replace them with a series of s. My problem is that I need to do a preg_replace on my $article->text, but I don't know how to then apply the changes to the matched terms. I've seen the preg_r...
Whatever string is given I have to see if there is exactly one space after and before =, If it is more than one space in either side I have to reduce that to one and if there is none, I have to insert one. How should I do that ? String can contain anything. Thanks ...
How would I do regex matching in Erlang? All I know is this: f("AAPL" ++ Inputstring) -> true. The lines that I need to match "AAPL,07-May-2010 15:58,21.34,21.36,21.34,21.35,525064\n" In Perl regex: ^AAPL,* (or something similar) In Erlang? ...
I have the text like "It's the 145 of 13221 items". I need to fetch all the number("145 and 13221") of text on one time. I want to use regex to do this. What is the regex like? "\d+" is not work fine. ...
Hi, I am developing an application using PHP but I am new to regular expressions, I could not find a solution to my problem. I want to replace all occurences of #word with a link, i have written a preg_match for this: $text=preg_replace('~#([\p{L}|\p{N}]+)~u', '<a href="/?aranan=$1">#$1</a>', $text); The problem is, this regular expr...
how would i write an if statement that would find phone numbers and store them to a variable. Here is what i have so far but its not working. if (preg_match('/^(?:(?:\+?1\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?(?:\(\s*([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9])\s*\)|([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9]))\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-9]1|[...
I need to grab the video ID from a Google Video URL. There are two different types of URLs that I need to be able to match: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3498228245415745977# where I need to be able to match -3498228245415745977 (note the dash; -), and video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3498228245415745977#docid=2728...
I have am working on a multi language file. My urls look something like this: http://www.mydomain.com/en/about/info http://www.mydomain.com/nl/about/info Now I use a small regex script that redirect the user when they use a link without language. The script looks like this: preg_match('~^/[a-z]{2}/~', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] This f...
Looking for some help with a Regular Expression to do the following: Must be Alpha Char Must be at least 1 Char Must NOT be a specific value, e.g. != "Default" Thanks for any help, Dave ...
Hi -i'm trying to find all the anchor tags and appending the href value with a variable. for example <a href="/page.aspx">link</a> will become <a href="/page.aspx?id=2"> <A hRef='http://www.google.com'><img src='pic.jpg'></a> will become <A hRef='http://www.google.com?id=2'><img src='pic.jpg'></a> I'm able to match all th...
Hello, I have a text file and I want to be able to change all instances of: T1M6 to N1T1M6 The T will always be a different value depending on the text file loaded. So example it could sometimes be T2M6 and that would need to be turned into N2T2M6. The N(value) must match the T(value). The M6 will always be M6. Another example:...
Hi everyone, I have a gigantic (4GB) XML file that I am currently breaking into chunks with linux "split" function (every 25,000 lines - not by bytes). This usually works great (I end up with about 50 files), except some of the data descriptions have line breaks, and so frequently the chunk files do not have the proper closing tags - an...