Hi There, Does anyone have a regurlar expression available which only accepts dates in the format dd/mm/yy but also has strict checking to make sure that the date is valid, including leap year support? I am coding in vb.net and am struggling to work this one out. Many Thanks ...
i had string like this in javascript var str = "This is my test string is Ingrédients"; the substring "Ingrédients" can be also as "Ingredients" how to get the index of substring "Ingrédients" from the above string by applying regular expression ( Ingr[ée]dients ) ...
I want to substitute all 4 instances of the number 300 from the code below (which my website users will be pasting whenever they create a new blog post), with 470. <div> <object width="300" height="300"> <embed src="link-removed" width="300" height="300"></embed> </object> <p> <a href="another-link">link</a> </p> </div> ...
hello, From past few days I'm trying to develop a regex that fetch all the external links from the web pages given to it using grep. Here is my grep command grep -h -o -e "\(\(mailto:\|\(\(ht\|f\)tp\(s\?\)\)\)\://\)\{1\}\(.*\?\)" "/mnt/websites_folder/folder_to_search" -r now the grep seem to return everything after the external li...
In Ruby, I'm trying to extract from text a string that starts with "who" and ends with the first of either a ")" or "when" (but doesn't include the ")" or the "when"). I've tried the following: who.*(?=when\b|\)) which fails the case where it finds both a "when" and a ")". Any ideas? Many thanks ...
I have a very very long querystring which ALWAYS starts like this: mydomain.com/bincgi/sql_query.php?alot alot alot of variables passed along What is the regular expression to make a rewriteRule if I want to pass along all the variables but via this link: mydomain.com/search/all variables here instead..... So the last one is wh...
I need a regular expression for which: the string is alphanumeric and have exactly 6 characters in the first half followed by hyphen(optional) followed by optional 4 characters:(cannot have more than 4 characters in the second half) so any of the following is valid 11111A 111111-1 111111-yy yyyyy-989 yyyyyy-9090 i thought this expr...
Hi all, I'd like to use a JS regex to take a string such as the following: 'http://www.somedomain.com/some_directory/some_other_directory/some_image.jpg' And turn it into this: 'http://www.some_other_domain.com/another_directory/yet_another_directory/size1_some_image.jpg' Any hints? Additionally, any pointers for books or other re...
What could be the easiest way to match all links and e-mail addresses in a string to a list array? I was using preg_match in PHP but in C# it looks like it will be way different. ...
I've been struggling to figure out how to best do this regular expression. Here are my requirements: Up to 8 characters Can only be alphanumeric Can only contain up to three alpha characters [a-z] (zero alpha characters are valid to) Any ideas would be appreciated. This is what I've got so far, but it only looks for contiguous lett...
I have a "description textarea" inside a form where user may enter a description for an item. This is validated with javascript before the form beeing submitted. One of the validation-steps is this: else if (!fld.value.match(desExp)){ And desExp: var desExp = /^\s*(\w[^\w]*){3}.*$/gm; Now my problem, this works fine on all cas...
I am having this particular requirement where a method has to be identified by different regular expressions for different components. For example, there need to be a regex for return parameter, one for method name, one for argument type and one for argument name. I was able to come up with an expression till this step as follows - ([^,...
I am currently programming a Visual C# service to receive emails from various sources then I take certain info and organize it in a database using Regex to retrieve the deferent cell values (such as header, body, problem, cost, etc.etc.). My problem is that I am currently using a Hotmail account to email the service which the service th...
Hi all I have a String that contains a line of html code eg. '<b>1995</b>'. Let's say this String could also contain '<b>1997</b>' or '<b>1999</b>' etc. I want to use a replace method to remove the tags but leave the years. Is there a way to implement a wildcard character to do this, something like: first_string = "First year is <b>199...
Hi, I have to validate the password using regex. The password rule is like at least 1 uppercase and at least 2 numeric. It works fine except if the character comes at the end of the string. The regular expression which i am using is "^(?=.*\d.{2})(?=.*[A-Z].{1})(?=.*[@#$%^&+=].{2}).{8,12}$" Rules: minimum length = 8 minimum uppe...
This is what i've come up with so far private void CheckFormatting() { StringReader objReaderf = new StringReader(txtInput.Text); List<String> formatTextList = new List<String>(); do { formatTextList.Add(objReaderf.ReadLine()); } while (objReaderf.Peek() != -1); objReaderf.Close(); for ...
My http_referer says this: http://www.domain.com/search/?etcetcetcetc... I need to compare my http_referer to look for this: http://www.domain.com/search And if the first part of the referer is this, then do some code... Ex: if($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']=='http://www.domain.com/search'){ do stuff... But first ...
Grep acts differently depending on what kind of quotes I surround the regex with. I can't seem to get a clear understanding of why this is. Here is an example of the problem: hamiltont$ grep -e show\( test.txt variable.show(); variable.show(a); variable.show(abc, 132); variableshow(); hamiltont$ grep -e "show\(" test.txt gre...
How can I reference a matched string (or captured group) in R so as to append in a sub(). For instance, I would do it like this in sed to append a 'd' to the match echo "66xx" | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]/&d/g' 66dxx ...
Hello, I'm displaying wordpress content on my own site. However the content has such things as: [caption id="attachment_367" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Version 2010!!"] I would basically like to strip anything thats inside [] and the [] themselves. Help greatly appreciated! ...