I'm looking for a method to assign variables with patterns in regular expressions with C++ .NET something like String^ speed; String^ size; "command SPEED=[speed] SIZE=[size]" Right now I'm using IndexOf() and Substring() but it is quite ugly ...
What is a good regular expression that can validate a text string to make sure it is a valid Windows filename? (AKA not have \/:*?"<>| characters). I'd like to use it like the following: // Return true if string is invalid. if (Regex.IsMatch(szFileName, "<your regex string>")) { // Tell user to reformat their filename. } ...
How can I insert ASCII special characters (e.g. with the ASCII value 0x01) into a string? I ask because I am using the following: str.Replace( "<TAG1>", Convert.ToChar(0x01).ToString() ); and I feel that there must be a better way than this. Any Ideas? Update: Also If I use this methodology, do I need to worry about unicode & ASCII...
Preferably free tools if possible. Also, the option of searching for multiple regular expressions and each replacing with different strings would be a bonus. ...
I'm having an issue with my regex. I want to capture <% some stuff %> and i need what's inside the <% and the %> This regex works quite well for that. $matches = preg_split("/<%[\s]*(.*?)[\s]*%>/i",$markup,-1,(PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY | PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE)); I also want to catch &% some stuff %> so I need to capture <% or &l...
Right now I'm doing something like this: RewriteRule ^/?logout(/)?$ logout.php RewriteRule ^/?config(/)?$ config.php I would much rather have one rules that would do the same thing for each url, so I don't have to keep adding them every time I add a new file. Also, I like to match things like '/config/new' to 'config_new.php' if that...
In java, which regular expression can be used to replace these, for example: before: aaabbb after: ab before: 14442345 after: 142345 thanks! ...
Does anyone have a regular expression handy that will match any legal DNS hostname or IP address? It's easy to write one that works 95% of the time, but I'm hoping to get something that's well tested to exactly match the latest RFC specs for hostnames. ...
I am wondering if it is possible to extract the index position in a given string where a Regex failed when trying to match it? For example, if my regex was "abc" and I tried to match that with "abd" the match would fail at index 2. Thanks Edit for clarification. The reason I need this is to allow me to simplify the parsing componen...
To see what file to invoke the unrar command on, one needs to determine which file is the first in the file set. Here are some sample file names, of which - naturally - only the first group should be matched: yes.rar yes.part1.rar yes.part01.rar yes.part001.rar no.part2.rar no.part02.rar no.part002.rar no.part011.rar One (limited) w...
How would you write a regular expression to convert mark down into HTML? For example, you would type in the following: This would be *italicized* text and this would be **bold** text This would then need to be converted to: This would be <em>italicized</em> text and this would be <strong>bold</strong> text Very similar to the mark...
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Let's say I have a string holding a mess of text and (x)HTML tags. I want to remove all instances of a given tag (and any attributes of that tag), leaving all other tags and text along. What's the best Regex to get this done? Edited to add: Oh, I appreciate that using a Regex for this particular issue is not the best solution. Howeve...
How would one write a regular expression to use in python to split paragraphs? A paragraph is defined by 2 linebreaks (\n). But one can have any ammount of spaces/tabs together with the line breaks, and it still should be considered as a paragraph. I am using python so the solution can use python's regular expression syntax which is ex...
I want an expression that will fail when it encounters words such as "boon.ini" and "http". The goal would be to take this expression and be able to construct for any set of keywords. ...
I'm building a fairly large website and my .htaccess is starting to feel a bit bloated, is there a way of replacing my current system of - one rule for each of the possibile number of vars that could be passed, to one catch all expression that can account for varying numbers of inputs ? for example i currently have RewriteRule ^([a-z]+...
No not a competition, it is instead me trying to find why a certain regex works in one but not the other. (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?) That's my Regex and I'm trying to run it on 127.255.0.0 Using Python...
So I was writing some code today that basically looks like this: string returnString = s.Replace("!", " ") .Replace("@", " ") .Replace("#", " ") .Replace("$", " ") .Replace("%", " ") .Replace("^", " ") .Replace("*", " ") .Replace("_", " ") .R...
I would like to replace only the group in parenthesis in this expression : my_string.gsub(/<--MARKER_START-->(.)*<--MARKER_END-->/, 'replace_text') so that I get : <--MARKER_START-->replace_text<--MARKER_END--> I know I could repeat the whole MARKER_START and MARKER_END blocks in the substitution expression but I thought there should...
I'm trying to write a parser to get the data out of a typical html table day/time schedule (like this). I'd like to give this parser a page and a table class/id, and have it return a list of events, along with days & times they occur. It should take into account rowspans and colspans, so for the linked example, it would return {:event...