Hey guys, i'm really trying to understand regular expressions while scraping a site, i've been using it in my code enough to pull the following, but am stuck here. I need to quickly grab this: http://www.example.com/online/store/TitleDetail?detail&sku=123456789 from this: ('<a href="javascript:if(handleDoubleClick(this.id)){windo...
<table > <tr> <td colspan="2" style="height: 14px"> tdtext1 <a>hyperlinktext1<a/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> tdtext2 </td> <td> <span>spantext1</span> </td> </tr> </table> This is my sample text how to write a regular expressi...
I'm using preg_* in PHP to search for the pattern <!-- %{data=THIS GETS MATCHED}% --> and pull out the matched text. The pattern for this is: preg_match('#<!-- %{' . $knownString . '\s*=\s*(.*?)}% -->#', ...) What I would like it to do is search across multiple lines for the string. For example: <!-- %{data= THIS GETS MATCHED AND RE...
I'm trying to validate a USA mobile number, since I'm using pre-built javascript validation library I just replaced this regex validation with the previous one which comes with the validation library. previous validation regex: "telephone":{ "regex":"/^[0-9\-\(\)\ ]{10,10}$/", "alertText":"* Invalid phone number"}, This works like 21...
Hi, I've got two possible string inputs that my application will receive, and if it matches the following two strings, I need it regex.ismatch() to return true: "User * has logged out" "User * has joined" I'm not that good at regex and just can't figure out how to go about matching the above. Any help would be great!!! ...
I would like to use UltraEdit regular expression (perl) to replace the following text with some other text in a bunch of html files: <style type="text/css"> #some-id{} .some-class{} //many other css styles follow </style> I tried to use <style type="text/css">.*</style> but of course it wouldn't match anything because the dot matc...
Regex to remove everything outside the { } for example: before: |loader|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|{"data" : "some data" } after: {"data" : "some data" } with @Marcelo's regex this works but not if there are others {} inside the {} like here: "|loader|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9| {'data': [ {'data':'some data'} ], }"...
In RegEx, how would I select anything thats not in brackets: E.g. Xxxxxxx (01010101) would return Xxxxxxx ? Thanks! ...
I've got a string: doCall(valA, val.valB); Using a regex in GVIM I would like to change this to: valA = doCall(valA, val.valB); How would I go about doing this? I use %s for basic regex search and replace in GVIM, but this a bit different from my normal usages. Thanks ...
So, I have this url in a string: http://www.domain.com/something/interesting_part/?somevars&othervars in PHP, how I can get rid of all but "interesting_part"? ...
I'm looking to tokenize really simple strings,but struggling to get the right Regex. The strings might look like this: string1 = "{[Surname]}, some text... {[FirstName]}" string2 = "{Item}foo.{Item2}bar" And I want to extract the tokens in the curly braces (so string1 gets "{[Surname]}","{[FirstName]}" and string2 gets "{Item}" and ...
I've got a string of digits that is either 4 or 5 digits long and it needs to be padded with "0" till it's 6 digits long. Is this possible? I'm using .Net framework. ...
string time = "Job started: donderdag 6 mei 2010 at 20:00:02" var filterReg = new Regex(@".*:", RegexOptions.Compiled); time = filterReg.Replace(time, String.Empty); Is it possible to stop after the first occurence? so at the first ":". ...
I'm trying to run a regular expression in VBA code that uses Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5 (should be the same as JavaScript regex) regex: ^[0-9A-Z]?[0-9A-Z]{3}[A-Z]?([0-9A-Z]{6})-?([0-9])?$ input: X123A1234567 match: 123456 The six characters I'm interested in give a good match of 123456, ignoring the last (check) digit. ...
Edit: OK, I can't read, thanks to Col. Shrapnel for the help. If anyone comes here looking for the same thing to be answered... print_r(preg_split('/([\!|\?|\.|\!\?])/', $string, null, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE)); Is there any way to split a string on a set of delimiters, and retain the position and character(s) of the delimiter after th...
Hi, if I have a input with new lines in it like: [INFO] xyz [INFO] How can I pull out the xyz part using $ anchors? I tried a pattern like /^\[INFO\]$(.*?)$\[INFO\]/ms, but perl gives me: Use of uninitialized value $\ in regexp compilation at scripts\t.pl line 6. Is there a way to shut off interpolation so the anchors work as expe...
Examples: "1 name": Should say it has characters "10,000": OK "na123me": Should say it has characters "na 123, 000": Should say it has characters ...
I have a list of keywords, about 25,000 of them. I would like people who add a certain < script> tag on their web page to have these keywords transformed into links. What would be the best way to go and achieve this? I have tried the simple javascript approach (an array with lots of elements and regexping/replacing each) and it obviousl...
What is the regular expression for validating a month with the leading zero? Passes regular expression: 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12 Fails regular expression: 1, 00, 13 and up. ...
Hello, I have a C# program where I am using a lot of RegEx.Replace to replace text in my text file. Here is my problem. In my text file, I have a code such as "M6T1". This code is listed in numerous places in the text file. However, I only want to delete it from the bottom (last instance) in the text file. There will always be a "M...