I need to extract some data from malformed XML stored in an Oracle database. The XPath expressions would look like this: //image/type/text(). One take at a regular expression which would work in a similar fashion would be <image>.*?<type>(.+?)<\/type> (with appropriate flags for multiline matching). Since Oracle does not support match g...
I am trying to get all the text between the following tags and it is just not workind If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(_html) Then Dim regex As Regex = New Regex( _ ".*<entry(?<link>.+)</entry>", _ RegexOptions.IgnoreCase _ Or RegexOptions.Cul...
I have a string that represents a paragraph of text. var paragraph = "It is important that the word cold is not partially selected where we search for the word old"; I want to be able to search this paragraph for the index of a "word" and have it do an exact match on a "word". For example, when searching for "old". I should only get...
My database contains URLs stored as text fields and each URL contains a representation of the date of a report, which is missing from the report itself. So I need to parse the date from the URL field to a String representation such as: 2010-10-12 2007-01-03 2008-02-07 What's the best way to extract the dates? Some are in this forma...
I really know very little about regex's. I'm trying to test a password validation. Here's the regex that describes it (I didn't write it, and don't know what it means): private static string passwordField = "[^A-Za-z0-9_.\\-!@#$%^&*()=+;:'\"|~`<>?\\/{}]"; I've tried a password like "dfgbrk*", and my code, using the above regex,...
What would the regular expression be for removing any content between a quote, and the directory "uploads/"? Using a regexpression generator, I get this: (?<=\=")[^]+?(?=uploads/) $block_data = preg_replace('/(?<=\=")[^]+?(?=uploads/)/g','',$block_data); But seems to be removing everything :( ...
Does Notepad++ support non-greedy regular expressions? For example for text: abcxadc I want to get parts using pattern: a.+c And now I get whole string instead of 2 parts. I tried to use the '?' operator but without success. ...
I apologize in advance for what is probably a simply question, but I suck at regular expressions and I did not find my answer via Google... My Question is as follows: Using ASP.NET syntax for the RegularExpressionValidator control, how do you specify restriction of two consecutive characters, say character 'x'? Thanks in advance... ...
I am trying do a search to make sure that each of our product titles contains its manufacturer code. I am using preg_match but am getting some weird results back. Here is a snippet of code I wrote to go through the array of products... while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $products[''.$row[0].''][0] = $r...
Possible Duplicate: How can I escape meta-characters when I interpolate a variable in Perl's match operator? I am using the following regex to search for a string $word in the bigger string $referenceLine as follows : $wordRefMatchCount =()= $referenceLine =~ /(?=\b$word\b)/g The problem happens when my $word substring cont...
I have this regular expression below to validate a security question where some one has to type in the answer twice. My client want the answers to be none case sensitive. So if someone types in Chester and the in the second field they type in chester it will match. What can I do to this expression to make that happen: /^(\w|[a-zA-Z\d\...
How to replace "i" in <li>anything</li> using regex Code : var code = "<li>anything</li>"; // i don't know what is in <li>......</li> result should be : var code = "<li>anyth1ng</li>"; // i don't know what is in <li>......</li> ...
I am trying regex to find out whether a number is divisible by 10 or by 5. So basically, I am trying to see whether the number end in 0 or 5. This is my regular expression ^[1-9]*0?.0$ I encounter issues when the input is 100.0 or 55.0 What should the regular expression be? Thanks, Sandy ...
Hi, I am using this one to prevent user to type special chars. String.prototype.isText = function () {return /^[\w\s]*$/.test(this)} How can i change it to prevent users to type non-english words ? (only apostrophe and & will be accepted as special char) thanks so much ...
Is there a way to select all <br> tags that follow a paragraph with a given class? i.e. <p class="myclass">This is a paragraph</p><br> There may be other <br> in the HTML so I cannot use this: br {display:none;} and I cannot delete all <br> tags. If there is a way to select these particular <br> tags then I can use CSS. There are a...
Is there an easy way to match all punctuation except period and underscore, in a C# regex? Hoping to do it without enumerating every single punctuation mark. ...
I have a Perl regex /\W/i which matches all non-alphanumeric characters, but it also matches spaces which I want to ignore. How do I get it to match non-alphanumeric characters except spaces? ...
If so, please explain how. Re: what is distance -- "The distance between two strings is defined as the minimal number of edits required to convert one into the other." For example, xyz to XYZ would take 3 edits, so the string xYZ is closer to XYZ and xyz. If the pattern is [0-9]{3} or for instance 123, then a23 would be closer to the ...
I have a series of strings like: 'i would like a blood orange' I also have a list of strings like: ["blood orange", "loan shark"] Operating on the string, I want the following list: ["i", "would", "like", "a", "blood orange"] What is the best way to get the above list? I've been using re throughout my code, but I'm stumped with ...
Hello I have a DOS batch file that performs an action for files beginning with text "SP", as follows: FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ( 'DIR SP*.sql /s /b' ) DO ECHO .compile_file = "%%A" >> output.txt The key bit here is obviously: DIR SP*.sql /s /b I need to do a similar thing before the "FOR" line above, but for all other files not st...