What would be the best definition of an English word? What are the other cases of an English word than just \w+? Some may include \w+-\w+ or \w+'\w+; some may exclude cases like \b[0-9]+\b. But I haven't seen any general consensus on those cases. Do we have a formal defintion of such? Can any of you clarify? (Edit: broaden the questi...
Hello, I am trying to parse the yahoo answers feed - http://answers.yahoo.com/rss/allq The issue is that the titles have [ Category ] : Open Question : in every title that I do not want... I want to write a regexp to remove this... anything that we can make to remove all the letters in the starting [ and the first : should do it. t...
Hi everybody, this is driving me nuts ;-) I have a string whith various span tags... I want to remove all span tags except the ones with classname XYZ... The problem is that i havent found a solution to leave the closing tag... My starting point is this regex: text = text.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, ""); But everything i tried to sa...
// [ { "id": "715320" ,"t" : "500268" ,"e" : "BOM" ,"l" : "15.55" ,"l_cur" : "Rs.15.55" ,"ltt":"3:59PM IST" ,"lt" : "Sep 9, 3:59PM IST" ,"c" : "+1.69" ,"cp" : "12.19" ,"ccol" : "chg" } ] I need to Get each with name and assign the value to each Like $id=715320; $e=BOM; from above data, how can i do that? ...
Hi, I have one question related with regular expression. In my case, I have to make sure that first letter is alphabet, second onwards it can be any alphanumeric + some special characters. Regards, Anto ...
Hello, I have a string that looks like this: blah blah blah Team ID:</div>xxxxxxx blah blah blah where the x's are a 7 digit number. How can I search for the "Team ID:" and then get the 7 digit number ahead of it? (In php). ...
I have a line of text that looks like "...X...Y...", where X and Y are both either Ok, Empty, or Open. Using PHP, I'm trying to use preg_match() to figure out what each one is. $regex = '/(Ok|Open|Empty)/'; preg_match($regex, $match, $matches); print_r($matches); However, in the case that X is "Empty", and Y is "Ok", the following li...
Im a little stuck with my app again. My app retrieves "Place names" and their "Addresses" from yellowpages.ca Here is the code so far: Dim content As String = "" Dim web As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb Dim doc As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument() doc.Load(WebBrowser1.DocumentStream) Dim hnc As HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlN...
One of the HTML input fields in an app I'm working on is being validated with the following regex pattern: .{5,}+ What is this checking for? Other fields are being checked with this pattern which I also don't understand: .+ ...
I have two strings that I need to pull data out of but can't seem to get it working. I wish I knew regular expression but unfortunately I don't. I have read some beginner tutorials but I can't seem to find an expression that will do what I need. Out of this first string delimited by the equal character, I need to skip the first 6 charac...
How would I match 'ber' to the end so it picks up 'ber/sunday/wednesday' monday/october/sunday/wednesday ...
This is not homework, but an old exam question. I am curious to see the answer. We are given an alphabet S={0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,+}. Define the language L as the set of strings w from this alphabet such that w is in L if: a) w is a number such as 42 or w is the (finite) sum of numbers such as 34 + 16 or 34 + 2 + 10 and b) The number ...
Hello, I need help splitting this string, but i can't seem to come with the right way of doing it. Suppose I have two numbers on a line 12 101 I would like to take the first and assign it to variable, and then take the second and assign it to a variable, this may sounds easy, but for me i can't come up with the right way to do it? ...
Why does ^[a-zA-Z][\w.,\$;]{0,6}$ match the abc part of the string abc! and not outright reject it? ...
I have this list: foo chef.rb baz bar cucumber.rb bar baz gem.rb foo I want to capture all the names without .rb. My current regexp looks like this: /([^\s](?:.)*?.(?:rb))/i But it captures the .rb too. How do I capture just the base name? Thanks. ...
This is the fourth part in a series of educational regex articles. It show how the combination of nested reference (see: How does this regex find triangular numbers?) to "count" within assertions (see: How can we match a^n b^n with Java regex?) can be used to reverse a string. The programmatically generated pattern uses meta-pattern a...
I have the following input: a few words - 25 some more - words - 7 another - set of - words - 13 And I need to split into this: [0] = "a few words" [1] = 25 [0] = "some more - words" [1] = 7 [0] = "another - set of - words" [1] = 13 I'm trying to use preg_split but I always miss the ending number, my attempt: $item = preg_split("...
I want to find First Word matching from Given Text and replace with another word, using Regex. Consider following string as an Example Text Which type is your item? i suppose that the item isn't a string, if so you can override ToString() method in the item class and use the jayant's code. I want to search first "item" w...
I have a JavaScript regular expression which basically finds two-letter words. The problem seems to be that it interprets accented characters as word boundaries. Indeed, it seems that A word boundary ("\b") is a spot between two characters that has a "\w" on one side of it and a "\W" on the other side of it (in either order), ...
Question What does it mean when a regular expression is surrounded by @ symbols? Does that mean something different than being surround by slashes? What about when @x or @i are on the end? Now that I think about it, what do the surrounding slashes even mean? Background I saw this StackOverflow answer, posted by John Kugelman, in ...