I am creating an application that will take a URL as input, retrieve the page's html content off the web and extract everything that isn't contained in a tag. In other words, the textual content of the page, as seen by the visitor to that page. That includes 'masking' out everything encapsuled in <script></script>, <style></style> and <!...
Hi all, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to PHP and regex but I'm trying to fix a broken plugin for my forum. I'd like to replace the following: <blockquote rel="blah">foo</blockquote> With <blockquote class="a"><div class="b">blah</div><div class="c"><p>foo</p></div></blockquote> Actually, that part is easy and I've already part...
I want to replace just the first occurrence of a regular expression in a string. Is there a convenient way to do this? Thanks, ...
I have a string that I want to extract text between comment tags, manipulate it, and replace it back. Here is what I am trying to work with: ... <!--RegionStart url="http://domain1.com"--> some text here <!--RegionFinish--> ... <!--RegionStart url="http://domain2.com"--> some text there <!--RegionFinish--> ... <!--RegionSt...
I know this has been talked here, but no solutions were offer to the exact problem. Please, take a look... I'm using a function to transform plain-text URLs into clickable links. This is what I have: <script type='text/javascript' language='javascript'> window.onload = autolink; function autolink(text) { var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp):\...
I'm trying to parse dates with regex, using groups, but python is returning empty lists. I'm not doing anything fancy, just 12/25/10 sort of stuff. I want it to reject 12/25-10 though. date = re.compile("\d{1,2}([/.-])\d{1,2}\1\d{2}") I've tried online regex libraries, but their solutions don't seem to run either. Any ideas? Sampl...
The title says it all. How can I use a regular expression to get words that start with ! ? For example !Test. I tried this but it doesn't give any matches: @"\B\!\d+\b" Although it did work when I replaced the ! with $. Any help would be nice. ...
I need to retrieve text from a remote web site that does not provide an RSS feed. What I know is that the data I need is always on pages linked to from the main page (http://www.example.com/) with a link that contains the text " Invoices Report ". For example: <a href="http://www.example.com/data/invoices/2010/10/invoices-report---tue...
I'm about to build a solution to where I receive a comma separated list every night. It's a list with around 14000 rows, and I need to go through the list and select some of the values in the list. The document I receive is built up with around 50 semicolon separated values for every "case". How the document is structured: "";"2010-10-1...
normally,we use regular expression match from left to right direction,i want to know is there some switch can match from the right to left in python? or in any other language has this feature embedded e.g. abcd1_abcd2 if give a abcd regular expression,it will match two abcd,what i want is put the last match at first in a reverse direc...
I wish to match &v= and before "> is there a regex match i could use Example: <a accesskey="1" href="/watch?gl=GB&client=mv-google&hl=en-GB&v=ubNF9QNEQLA">Test Your Awareness : Whodunnit?</a> i only need the ubNF9QNEQLA Thanks ...
Hey, trying to figure out a way to use a file I have to generate an SQL insert to a database. The file has many entries of the form: 100090 100090 bill smith 1998 That is,an id number, another id(not always the same), a full name and a year. These are all separated by a space. Basically what i want to to is be able to get variables f...
http://examples.oreilly.com/9780735615366/ I actually want to be able to have all these files in my disk. as u can see there are many folders each with different type of files. and u cannot download "the-folder" directly...only individual files ~ is there any way to automate process..? I will need regular expressions on urls to arr...
I have started making a syntax highlighter in php (only a quick one) and so far I have got a code box generator (aka it creates a table with styles that looks good and can display source code and html code). At the moment when writing code with it I do this: $code = "def example_ruby_code(does_it_work) " . "(insert tab here) @does_i...
Hi, i would like to get everything inbetween &v= and "> using a regex expression, NSString *YouTubeRegex = @"/amp;v=([^(\">)]+)/"; But that regex is not returning any matches ? i know the coding is correct just not the regex expression any help ? Thanks ...
Ok the question is quite simple. I'm looking for a string like this one : name="some_text_0_some_text" I have HTML code before and after the string above. Now i would like to replace the 0 by something like : !NEW_ID! So i made a simple regex : .*name="\w+(\d+)\w+".* But i don't see how to replace exclusively the captured block....
Given a string, how do I express that a pattern must match multiple regex using the AND operator? For example, I want a password to be a minimum of 5 characters AND maximum of 12 characters. Regex for mimimum 5 characters: .{5,} Regex for maximum 12 characters: .{12} I know I can combine the above two to something like this: .{5,12},...
Hello everyone, I am looking for a reg exp to match 1111111/11 pattern, all numbers are integers. I will be grateful if anyone can please help? I am not that good in regular expressions. ...
Hello, Apart from what they are, I dont know anything about regular expressions... :( I have this code in a javascript function: var foroFormatting = function (text) { var newText = text; var findreps = [ { find: /^([^\-]+) \- /g, rep: '<span class="ui-selectmenu-item-header">$1</span>' }, { find: /([^\|><]+) \...
i was wondering how to turn a paragraph, into bullet sentences in vim. before: sentence1. sentence2. sentence3. sentence4. sentence5. sentence6. sentence7. after: sentence1. sentence2. sentence3 sentence4. sentence5. ...