I have a string which is like this: this is "a test" I'm trying to write something in Python to split it up by space while ignoring spaces within quotes. The result I'm looking for is: ['this','is','a test'] PS. I know you are going to ask "what happens if there are quotes within the quotes, well, in my application, that will never...
Is there a quick way to find every match of a regular expression in Ruby? I've looked through the Regex object in the Ruby STL and searched on Google to no avail. Thanks! ...
I have a string which starts with //#... goes upto the newline characater. I have figured out the regex for the which is this ..#([^\n]*). My question is how do you remove this line from a file if the following condition matches ...
I am trying to write some JavaScript RegEx to replace user inputed tags with real html tags, so [b] will become <b> and so forth. the RegEx i am using looks like so var exptags = /\[(b|u|i|s|center|code){1}]((.){1,}?)\[\/(\1){1}]/ig; with the following JavaScript s.replace(exptags,"<$1>$2</$1>"); this works fine for single nested t...
Hi, I have a version number of the following form: version.release.modification where version, release and modification are either a set of digits or the '*' wildcard character. Additionally, any of these numbers (and any preceding .) may be missing. So the following are valid and parse as: 1.23.456 = version 1, release 23, modifica...
Is there a canonical ordering of submatch expressions in a regular expression? For example: What is the order of the submatches in "(([0-9]{3}).([0-9]{3}).([0-9]{3}).([0-9]{3}))\s+([A-Z]+)" ? a. (([0-9]{3})\.([0-9]{3})\.([0-9]{3})\.([0-9]{3}))\s+([A-Z]+) (([0-9]{3})\.([0-9]{3})\.([0-9]{3})\.([0-9]{3})) ([A-Z]+) ([0-9]{3...
I need to write a function that receives a string and a regex. I need to check if there is a match and return the start and end location of a match. (the regex was already compiled by qr//) The function might also receive a "global" flag and then I need to return the (start,end) pairs of all the matches. ps. I cannot change the regex ...
I am trying to validate user id's matching the example: smith.jack or smith.jack.s In other words, any number of non-whitespace characters (except dot), followed by exactly one dot, followed by any number of non-whitespace characters (except dot), optionally followed by exactly one dot followed by any number of non-whitespace characte...
Does anyone know if it's possible to use regex capture within Apache's DirectoryMatch directive? I'd like to do something like the following: <DirectoryMatch ^/home/www/(.*)> AuthType Basic AuthName $1 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/svn.passwd Require group $1 admin </DirectoryMatch> but so far I've had no success. Specifi...
I've used RegexBuddy several times and found it to be a really useful tool. Is there anything like it in the open source world, preferably something that is platform agnostic? (the fact that regexbuddy is windows only is a real downer) The only thing I've been able to find is Kodos, which I've also used quite a lot, but it doesn't quit...
I know how to do this if I iterate through all of the characters in the string but I am looking for a more elegant method. Thanks ...
Ok, so i'm working on a regular expression to search out all the header information in a site. I've compiled the regular expression: regex = re.compile(r''' <h[0-9]>\s? (<a[ ]href="[A-Za-z0-9.]*">)?\s? [A-Za-z0-9.,:'"=/?;\s]*\s? [A-Za-z0-9.,:'"=/?;\s]? ''', re.X) when i run this in python reg ex. tester, it works out...
I'm trying to match elements with a name that is 'container1$container2$chkChecked', using a regex of '.+\$chkChecked', but I'm not getting the matches I expect when the element name is as described. What am I doing wrong? ...
How can I take the string “foo[]=1&foo[]=5&foo[]=2” and return a collection with the values 1,5,2 in that order. I am looking for an answer using regex in C#. Thanks ...
I have a string which contain tags in the form < tag >. Is there an easy way for me to programmatically replace instances of these tags with special ascii characters? e.g. replace a tag like "< tab >" with the ascii equivelent of '/t'? ...
In other words may one use /<tag[^>]*>.*?<\/tag>/ regex to match the tag html element which does not contain nested tag elements? For example (lt.html): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>greater than sign in attribute value</title> </head> <body>...
Most of my users have email addresses associated with their profile in /etc/passwd. They are always in the 5th field, which I can grab, but they appear at different places within a comma-separated list in the 5th field. Can somebody give me a regex to grab just the email address (delimeted by commas) from a line in this file? (I will b...
Pretty basic question, I'm trying to write a regex in Vim to match any phrase starting with "abc " directly followed by anything other than "defg". I've used "[^defg]" to match any single character other than d, e, f or g. My first instinct was to try /abc [^\(defg\)] or /abc [^\<defg\>] but neither one of those works. ...
I have the following string: cn=abcd,cn=groups,dc=domain,dc=com Can a regular expression be used here to extract the string after the first "cn=" and before the first ","? In the example above the answer would be "abcd". Thanks. ...
Suppose you have the following string: white sand, tall waves, warm sun It's easy to write a regular expression that will match the delimiters, which the Java String.split() method can use to give you an array containing the tokens "white sand", "tall waves" and "warm sun": \s*,\s* Now say you have this string: white sand and tall...