What could be the exact Regex.IsMatch expression for span[class|align|style] I tried with this one but i am not getting exact expected result if (!Regex.IsMatch(n.Value, @"span\[.*?style.*?\]", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)) n.Value = Regex.Replace(n.Value, @"(span\[.*?)(\])", "$1" + ValToAdd + "$2"); I am checking if the span con...
Is there a way to use a variable as modifier in a substitution? my $search = 'looking'; my $replace = '"find: $1 ="'; my $modifier = 'ee'; s/$search/$replace/$modifier; I need to use an array of hashes to make bulk search-replace with different modifiers. ...
When a user submits a form I need to make sure that the input contains at least a minimum number of digits. The problem is that I don't know what format the input will be in. The digits likely won't be in a row, and might be separated by letters, punctuation, spaces, etc. I don't care about the rest of the string. I'd like to check this...
How can one strip the left parts and right parts off strings up to a matching expression as in ksh? For instance: ${name##*/} ${name%/*} (see http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/~johnb/comp/unix/ksh.html for ksh examples). I can't seem to figure out a simple way of doing this using re module or string module but I must be missing something. ...
I'm trying to write a regular that will check for numbers, spaces, parentheses, + and - this is what I have so far: /\d|\s|\-|\)|\(|\+/g but im getting this error: unmatched ) in regular expression any suggestions will help. Thanks ...
I have a Groovy script that converts some very poorly formatted data into XML. This part works fine, but it's also happily passing some characters along that aren't legal in XML. So I'm adding some code to strip these out, and this is where the problem is coming from. The code that isn't compiling is this: def illegalChars = ~/[\u0000-...
I am trying to get mercurial to ignore hidden files for a specific user. I used the directions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2395179/how-to-make-mercurial-ignore-all-hidden-files and got it to ignore files in a specific repo. I want to extend this behavior to all hg repos for a specific user. The hgrc man page says yo...
Here is an example: s="[email protected]" s.match(/+[^@]*/) Result => "+subtext" The thing is, i do not want to include "+" in there. I want the result to be "subtext", with out the + ...
I'd like to redirect all top level directories to a file using mod_rewrite. So the following should redirect there: - http://example.com/test - http://example.com/test8/ - http://example.com/test_9231/ The following should NOT redirect there: - http://example.com/test.php - http://example.com/test_9231/test/ - http://example.com/t...
Hello there, I'm writing code to recursively replace predefined variables from inside a given string. The variables are prefixed with the character '%'. Input strings that start with '^' are to be evaluated. For instance, assuming an array of variables such as: $vars['a'] = 'This is a string'; $vars['b'] = '123'; $vars['d'] = '%...
I have the following asp.net markup: <asp:TextBox ID="txtPassword" runat="server" TextMode="Password" ValidationGroup="passwordValidation"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" Display="Dynamic" ControlToValidate="txtPassword" Text="Required" ValidationGroup="passwordValidation" /> <...
Hello, i have a url like this http://example.com/blog/photos/photos/gallery/image/1. And i need to remove the second photos folder. How do i remove the part using mod_rewrite and .htaccess? For your interest /blog is my document root. Thanks a lot for any suggestions, Steve EDIT You should know that the URLs being generated by Word...
Hi, Imagine I have a string - something like this: This is some really cool text about http://google.com/ and it also contains some urls like http://apple.com/ and its very nice! This is too long and I need to do some magic stuff to fix this very big problem. Oh no. As you can see there are two URLs in the string and somehow, assumin...
I have a regular expression to escape all special characters in a search string. This works great, however I can't seem to get it to work with word boundaries. For example, with the haystack add + or add (+) and the needle + the regular expression /\+/gi matches the "+". However the regular expression /\b\+/gi doesn't. An...
In the following: space ([ \t\f\r])+ opt_space ([ \t\f\r])* cpp ^{opt_space}#{opt_space} word [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]* arg_macro {cpp}define{space}{word} /*arg_macro ^{opt_space}#{opt_space}define{space}{word}*/ %% {arg_macro} ; %% I get an error message test.l...
Given a search string "cars 'cats and dogs' fish 'hammers'", what's the best regex for capturing all search terms. It should support single and double quotes. A Ruby friendly answer if possible. ...
Hello, I have been reading about regular expressions for around a couple of hours and I still cannot get my head around this: I am trying to pull the anchor text from a link that is formatted this way: <h3><b>File</b> : <a href="/en/browse/file/variable_text">i_want_this</a></h3> I want only the anchor text for the link : "i_want_this...
I am using a regular expression to see if there is a single non-latin character within a string. $latin_check = '/[\x{0030}-\x{007f}]/u'; //This is looking for only latin characters if(preg_match($latin_check, $_POST['full_name'])) { $error = true; } This should be checking to see if there is at least one character pres...
hi I need to find the complement of this: $_ = 'aaaaabaaabaaabacaaaa'; while( /([a][a][a][a])/gc){ next if pos()%4 != 0; my $b_pos = (pos()/4)-1; print " aaaa at :$b_pos\n"; } That is, a suite of 4 caracters that is not 'aaaa'. The following doesn't work $_ = 'aaaaabaaabaaabacaaaa'; while( /([^a][^a][^a][^a])/gc){ ...
I'm banging my head against the wall trying to figure out a (regexp?) based parser rule for the following problem. I'm developing a text markup parser similar to textile (using PHP), but i don't know how to get the inline formatting rules correct -- and i noticed, that the textile parsers i found are not able to format the following text...