Also known as regular expression or regexp, a description of a set of strings, often used for searching and validating strings.
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Extract/delete all other text than whats inside “ ”, and after string
I'm have a very big data output in a .txt file that looks like this:
value1="1",value2="2",value3="test3",value4="4"
value1="1",value2="2",value3="anothertest3",value4="4"
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OpenOffice Calc regex returns wrong value - what's wrong with my regex?
I have a column of text with values concatenated by my bank, as in a typical monthly statement.
Here is an example (column A240):
OCT 26 BALANCEPROTECTOR PREMIUM $10.05
I'm trying to set the ...
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Delete specific number of characters after a specific string is found
I have several lines of code and I'm looking for a way to search for a specific string e.g. 'id0=' and delete it and all 10 characters after it, per line. I would prefer a way/macro/addon for ...
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Extract URLS from code statements in JS files
All,
I want to extract all URLS mentioned in code statements in all js files in a folder.
For e.g. if a js file contains this piece of code:
var myURL="http://yahoo.com/signup"
//var ...
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Regex Pattern for Proxy
I am trying to match proxy patterns using the following regex:
((?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}):(\d+)
It is working well thus far, but is not matching the following: 218.25.249.186:80
Any ideas? Thanks!
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What terms in my regex should I use in place of /b to not be subject to interference by control characters in MS Word or its brethern?
I am using Dynamic Hotstrings as part of my implementation of AutoHotkey. It has been an invaluable tool in the learning of Regular Expressions.
Currently I use it heavily for text expansion within ...
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Windows program / tool needed for recursively searching through files referenced from within a file
Following scenario:
I browse for unsafeMethodCall() in all my web pages. This method is only unsafe in case that there is a reference of doSomeCrazyAjaxStuff()
My web pages are using strong ...
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Is there a way to do rich text formatting with regexes?
I'm trying to edit a large public domain text for publication. One of the things I have to do is make each paragraph's heading bold. Since the heading always begins with an open-paren and ends with a ...
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Using Notepad++ to search/replace PHP code with regular expressions
I would like to update some PHP code into the Joomla framework, replacing things like:
$myvar=$_POST["myvar"];
with
$myvar=JRequest::getVar('myvar');
This seems like it should be easy enough ...
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Command that behaves like Emacs' align-regexp
Let's say you have a properties file that looks like this:
prop1 = value1
longerprop = value2
reallylongpropthathasnomeaning = val3
shorterprop = val4
and you want to "beautify" it into this:
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regex redirection to safe url
I have several thousand URL's in a CMS formatted like:
/post/en/1539/A+Week+in+Paris+61.html
I'm moving all of the data to wordpress. Where the URL structure will be formated as:
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Is there a way to detect regular expression support in a htaccess file?
I use to following rewrite rule to pass the whole url to an php script:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*?)$ ...
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Interactive regex find highliting in Notepad++
How can I make Notepad++ highlight my regex matches as I type?
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Find/replace underscored words to camelCase words using regex?
I have a ton of text files that are tagged with underscore-connected words like @some_text, but I would like to convert those to tags in camel case, like @someText. How can I use regex (either in vim ...
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Regular expression replace in Textpad where search term spans multiple lines
Is it possible to do a regular expression search and replace in Textpad where the search term spans multiple lines.
e.g. document contains:
Hello
ab_c
D_EF
12_3
World
I would like to replace ...
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How does adblock regex work?
Here I found adblock regex explanation. I wish to block all images containing "bbelements" in their url, but neither "bbelements" nor "*bbelements*" worked for me.
Surely it must be something very ...
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How do I use regex curly braces in SublimeText2
SublimeText's regex parser doesn't seem to work like others.
If I write (.*{50, 51})+, or (.*{50,})+, or (.*{50})+, it doesn't grab sets of 50 characters. I think it tries to match the { as a ...
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Expression help for Find and Replace in Notepad++
I'm fuddling my way through using regular expressions in notepad++ with some .xml files, and may have gotten a little over my head.
I'm currently trying to search for anything that starts with:
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Nano syntax highlighting malformed regex?
I found this javascript syntax highlighting file for nano on google code, downloaded it and included it in my /etc/nanorc file:
File: /usr/share/nano/js.nanorc
## all *js files ( e.g. Firefox ...
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Regex to Increment a Number by 1 in Visual Studio 2005
How would I use a regex in Visual Studio 2005's search / replace to increment a set of numbers by 1?
The search term is either {:z} or {[0-9]+}. I am unsure of the replace term. Using "\1" simply ...
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Excluding preceding characters from a “Find”
I'm attempting to automatically format portions of a significantly sized document. For one, I'm attempting to apply Heading 1 to all headings in the format of:
1.1 Heading 1
and Heading 2 to:
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Notepad++, my regex that works elsewhere, seem not work with Notepad++ search
Hello i got following regex
height="(\d*\.\d{3})\d*cm"
And problem, while it works on site i did designed it http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ it wont work with notpad++, could someone help me ...
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How can I find and replace multiple blocks of text in multiple documents all at once?
I tried searching for this everywhere but couldn't find any solution.
I have 100 html pages with various text to translate. I have also the translated text ready on a word document.
So what I have to ...
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Which is the equivalent of this JGsoft regular expression in UltraEdit?
How do I replace the XML expression
'
with
'
?
The problem is that the text is divided in multiple formats for the characters:
\n - 10 13
& \n apos;
&a \n pos;
I did the ...
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Pattern matching gnmap fields with SED
I am testing the regex needed for creating field extraction with Splunk for nmap and think I might be close...
Example full line:
Host: 10.0.0.1 (host) Ports: 21/open|filtered/tcp//ftp///, ...
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Using RegEX To Prefix And Append In Notepad++
I found this question on StackOverflow. It worked great but I also need to include lines that have non-alphabet characters in it like:
some_name
some.name
And add prefixes like this:
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regex pattern for various number groups
I am parsing a list of code numbers, they have a pattern of 12345.1211. They are space delimited.
They sometimes will have a space followed by one - three addition number patterns like:
1221.121 11 ...
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Regex editor application for Mac
I'm working with regular expressions on Mac and I'm using:
http://reggyapp.com/
But it does not show the exact matches numbered. I'm looking for other applications. Something similar to regex ...
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OpenOffice.org Writer RegEx
I have some badly formatted text which I am attempting to reformat using the OpenOffice.org Writer's Find/Replace functionality which supports regular expressions as defined here.
The problem is some ...
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Is there ANY possible way to make TextMate's ⌘-F regex by default?
TextMate newbie here.
I hate to have to grab my mouse to click that Regular Expressions box nearly every time I search.
EDIT: the Regex check box becomes unchecked anytime after using ⌘-F in Safari.
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LogRotate use regex for filename
I have a custom logging class that creates a log for each instance of the process and adds a unique id to the log file name, example:
process.1234.log
process.1235.log
Also I can add a date/time ...
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KeePass wildcard in url
I started using Keepass yesterday and it's really useful however I cannot find a way to add wildcard into the url...
I want one key being used on all url(s) that met the following rule:
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Midnight Commander copy/rename with replaced characters
I would like to copy/rename (F5/F6) with regex (regular expression) mask all the tagged files or directories with names containing space or á or é characters replaced with underscore and a and e ...
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Changing puttyTRAY's URL regex in order to match URLs across lines separated by tmux window boundaries
I use puttytray to access a shell account on which I have a tmux instance running. Inside tmux, I have irssi running in a window. When people post long URLs in IRC, however, it's annoying since these ...
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Notepad++ command to tweak document path and filename
In Notepad++ 5.8.6, is there a way to copy to the clipboard the current document's full path and filename after applying a regular expression replace?
For example, I can do Edit > Copy to Clipboard > ...
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Find and replace with lookaround in Sublime Text 2
I'm trying to fix a nasty issue left for me by a previous developer. Evidently, he didn't "believe" in using quotes around dictionary keys, so I now see stuff like:
$_REQUEST[username]
and error ...
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How to replace file strings with regexp in Linux
I'm trying to replace the specific numbers and use this command:
sed -e 's/[0-9]\{12\}/ /g' file.log
but nothing happens. As U can see this expression should replace all numeric occurrences with ...
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Sublime Text 2 incrementor plugin
I'm trying to replace some numbers with the incrementor plugin in my JSON file that looks like this:
{
"name" :"Mawlid al-Nabi",
"date" :"2013-01-24",
"ID" : "912"
},
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Using the 'ed' editor, how can I print the first 20 matching lines?
Given a file of humongous size, I can edit with ed, then issue the following command.
g/real/p
Which will print out all lines containing 'real'.
What I want to do is print the first 20.
I know ...
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RegEx and RTMP for XBMC & LiveStreams
I love this idea/tool and I'd like to master it: LiveStreams (video) Add-on - an alternative to .strm files
I downloaded C420's LiveStreams addon and it works great! I have since tried applying the ...
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How to grab data from nbtscan to csv file
I am using nbtscan -s , 192.168.0.1-254 -t 20000 to return the list fo machines that I need to export to csv but it is returning a different number of columns when I use a regex in PHP echo ...
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Outlook 2010 Rule to filter From field
I need a filter to trash all incoming mails where the From field begins with "DR" plus a non-alphanum character.
I tried filtering for "^[dD][rR][. ].*" but it seems Outlook is too stupid to ...
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XML text transformation
I have a large file part of which is like below:
<DataGroup xsi:type="ReportDataGroup">
<SmartReportTemplate DescriptionContentType="text/plain"
IsActive="true">
<Name ...
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Regex to find a string in GrayLog2
I am trying to find a regex that will search for a string in Graylog2:
access denied
For example, I want to search for the string:
Login failed: Access Denied
I have tried:
\Qaccess ...
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Textpad regex cursor placement after the replaced text
I have the following regex to find a date and replace it with some text plus the tags but the subsequent replaces are finding the replaced text instead of the next date
Regex: ...
