Questions tagged [regex]
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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Notepad++ Change case only one letter in a few sentences after a certain symbol
There are all lines of this type:
https://aaa/aaa/aaa/2018/06/bbb_bbb-bbb_bbb-bbb-1-bbb.doc
It is necessary to change the case of only the first letter in all phrases that are after the last / and ...
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Sort Bullet list alphabetically, maintaining formatting in Notepad++
Hello I am trying to sort lists alphabetically that contain entries separated by • and I need it to maintain formatting. I am using Notepad++ and can also use Python Script (Plugin). Example source:
|[...
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Finding anchor HTML elements without href attributes using regex
I'm trying to search through my project for <a> elements that are missing their href attribute, using a regular expression to match the results I'm looking for.
I first tried the following ...
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Capitalize everything before a Symbol
I need to find a possibility of capitalize every word BEFORE a symbol.
Example:
bla apple banana=Bla apple banana
Result:
Bla Apple Banana=Bla apple banana
I want to Capitalize every first letter of ...
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Regex match only URL's that dont contain special characters
I have a list of URL's like so.
https://www.website.com/foo
https://www.website.com/foo/bar
https://www.website.com/foo?query=
And I want to have some Regex that only matches with https://www.website....
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a very simple Perl script needed
I have the following text file G.txt.
I need a perl command
perl -e ...
that would extract all negative entries ending with Kč, so that first line it will be
-107,60
and last will be -63,00
I have ...
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REGEX: Select the text between certain words, only from the file that contains a certain word
good day. I have to select some text between the words start and finnish in several html files. But, also, I need to select that particular text only if the file contains the word BABY SIN
For example:...
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Regex: Delete duplicate double quote (apostrophe) on a html tag (from string)
I have this html tag (from string):
<meta name="description" content="I love my mother" but I love my sister" more than I can say"/>
As you can see, I have 4 double ...
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Which Regex command to use in Notepad++ to find the desired emails?
I have a lot of txt files in drive D, and drive E. Each file has a lot of different formats. Which Regex ( Notepad++ ) do I need to use, to get the result of email lines with a domain that contains ...
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Notepad++ split function regex
I'm newbie for notepad++. I want to split keyword after @ .
user1@yahoo.com
user34@gmail.com
john@outlook.com
My desired output :
yahoo.com
gmail.com
outlook.com
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Regex (ERE) How to exclude some character combination
I'm trying to update nanorc syntax highlighting.
I would like to highlight hostnames and separately filenames. I would like to exclude matches if hostname starts with "db." or "nm.&...
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Extract key from key-value pair
I have a file looking like that.
mke_version = "3.3.7"
msr_version = "2.8.5"
mcr_version = "19.03.14"
I want to print from file only key ...
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Regex to pull the URL site name from block of text?
I don't know too much about regex, I've mostly just used RegExr to guess & check and come up with suitable expressions for my needs. I've made a notification reader on my phone using Tasker, and ...
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Regex to insert a space between uppercase and lowercase letters
I have text like
CacciaMagazineOttobre2020
RumoreFebbraio2021
To add a space between letters and numbers in this way
CacciaMagazineOttobre 2020
RumoreFebbraio 2021
I use this regex
Find: ([a-z])([0-...
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Where is the date of last change in the XML files of a DOCX?
I've unzipped a DOCX-document and am looking for the date or time for the file's last change.
I've tried using command line tools like grep but to no avail.
When I upload the DOCX-file to Google Docs, ...
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regex help: Replacing characters
I want to change characters in a json file. I tried some commands but didn't find a solution.
Input:
{
"cpu" : 0.0789131391278358,
"disk" : 0,
"diskread"...
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MS Word Using RegEx-like Wildcards to Edit Formatting
I'm looking at protein sequence that is highly repetitive and I'm trying to format a specific letter in three-letter motif. For example here's a short snippet of the sequence using the single-letter ...
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Match same string as composed word for first 3 positions of the row
I use this regex to remove similar lines
Search pattern: ^(.{5,})(.*)$\R\1.*
Replace pattern: $1$2
For example for line like this
alfax jack
alfax meta
regex give me this output line
alfax jack
I ...
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What is the correct regex for this?
I have a long txt file like this:
notes = "asdfasasfs";
name = "Bob Field";
time = "08:00";
address = "123 Apple Road";
phone = "555-1234";
zip = &...
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Extracting specific links from source code in linux command line
I have a 3000 line source code text file of a page. How I can extract specific urls similar to down below and delete rest source code ?
https://d17nygptf7ayu.cloudfront.net/photos/0b1983ccf6bb5674f93b....
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How to remove lines if they appear more than once in Notepad++? (removing both lines!)
Here's how my .csv looks :
36;Masashi MOTOYAMA
38;H. SOGAHATA
38;Hitoshi SOGAHATA
47;Masami IHARA
52;S. ONO
52;S. ONO
For my project, I need to add one by one every missing id.
I want to keep the ids ...
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Can matched patterns be used in a replacement string?
I am new to both regular expressions and GNU sed. I have an anonymised sample of the data below.
RED: 13905 16356 17457 18164 18447 21063 26924 27684 30111 30205
CERISE: 6221 6524 18250 24367 24462 ...
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Add extensions to files in a file tree with PowerShell?
I'm trying to add extension to files extension-less in a tree.
The following command does not give satisfaction. How to achieve this ?
get-childitem * -recurse -exclude *.h | where { ! $_....
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Regex to only keep username:password and delete the rest in Notepad++
I want to only keep username:password combos and delete everything else. The username must include at least two or more characters and the password must contain at least two or more characters. The ...
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Renaming a download file via htaccess
I currently have in a server files in this format
https://example.com/files/{group_no}/{date}/{file_no}-file.txt
Being:
group_no an integer (NN)
date format YYYY-MM-DD
file_no an integer (NN)
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Regex to only keep email:password
I just want to keep the email and password and delete all the other information.
Name: Test1 Test1
Address: 11 Test Road
Country : Test1
Post Code: abc111
EmailPass : test_111@hotmail.com:password111$£...
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How can I use a regex to keep MAC addresses and delete everything else in a string?
What regular expression would I need to delete everything except for the macs which can include the letters A-F (in capitals) and digits 0-9
I want to delete everything else (letters and numbers) and ...
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Keep the number and delete the rest of the lines using Regex
Please can someone help me with the the regular expression for the following.
I just want to keep the telephone number and detele the rest of the lines.
Name: Text here
DOB: Text here
Address: Text ...
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Replace attribute of XML parent node with values from child node
I have an xml file where I want to replace text in a parent node with some text from the child node. This is an example xml:
<output name="Element_152">
<field name="NAME&...
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Notepad++ - Copy text between sign
I need please your help :
I have this text like this :
</span>Seller: sunnybeauty04 (1,702) 98.6%<span
</span>Seller: 168tradeworld-au (2,357) 99.1%<span
</span>Seller: rna-e-...
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PowerShell: How to substitute array value into regex expression within Where-Object -MATCH
I am having trouble getting a string value from an array to insert into the regex expression in the -match condition of Where-Object below.
PS [path]> $ordArr=@("001","005",&...
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Notepad ++ extract MAC addresses from text
How to extract MAC addresses from text to get a list where each line is one MAC adress only?
I try to mark MAC addresses with regex, bookmark lines and delete unmarked lines but there is still too ...
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Regex to match an extension
I use this regex
[^\/\.]+$
to match .php
http://www.demo.com/profiles-forum/linda-blair.php
but it match only php. How canI include also dot?
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Regular Expression Notepad++ How do I delete a portion of text in a line without deleting the rest of the line
I have lines of CNC code that look like this:
N82 X-.4698 Y4.6023 Z0. C0. B180.
N83 X-.4688 Y4.637 Z0. C0. B180.
N84 X-.4748 Y4.67 Z0. C0. B180.
N85 X-.4876 Y4.7037 Z0. C0. B180.
I want to find all ...
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Replacing text case inside the parentheses
For example I have the files with the following names:
Apple (Fruit).txt
Palm (Tree).txt
How can I transform their names to
Apple (fruit).txt
Palm (tree).txt
with RegExp using Bulk Rename Utility?
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Notepad++ regex formula
I'm newbie for notepad++. I want to beginning and end of the word of OU keyword.
user01,OU=IT,DC=contoso,DC=local
user02,OU=Security,DC=contoso,DC=local
user03,OU=TEST,OU=HW,OU=IT,DC=contoso,DC=local
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What is the regex to find and move
Can this be done using Regex, please?
Actual text Patient Name: Second, First
Next dictation is on John Doe. He comes in today ...
Formatted Text Patient Name: Doe, John
He comes in today ...
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Regex: Select everything (the whole line) to the dot but not more dots
I have this 2 cases:
1. I love you.
2. I love you...
I want to select with regex only the first line to the dot, but not the second that has more dots.
I made this regex, but is not to good: ^(.+?\.)...
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Microsoft wild cards - find words with different endings but next to each other
Aim
Hi folks, I am building an Index and I am trying to search for two-word phrases but with declinations in MS Word. So what I want to find is two words next to each other with fixed beginnings but ...
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What is the correct syntax of a list involving regular expressions (non-typical usage in a browser extension)?
So, I'm struggling with configuring options in Aria2 Download Manager Integration extension for Firefox. In the 'Include file type' field I'm supposed to list a number of file types to be captured by ...
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Regex pattern works in powershell but not in notepad++
I use the following line in powershell, which finds what I am looking for.
Select-String -Path *.txt -Pattern '(.*)pov\"(.*)Fred(.*)\"$'
but I cannot get the find command in notepad++ to ...
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(short form to) Ignore multiple filename patterns using “find”?
It seems I can ignore a certain filename pattern (*.dll) on find search by doing
find ! -name '*.dll'
And ignore multiple patterns by doing
$ find . ! -name '*.h' ! -name '*.cpp' ! -name '*.dll'
Is ...
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Notepad ++ Change last name from Upper case to Proper case
Hi I would like to replace all the "last name" instances in my text file from full upper case to Proper case. DOE to Doe or IPSUM to Ipsum as you can see below
Name = John DOE
Random info 1
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Regex to match date range as (XXXX–XXXX) or (X) (XXXX–XXXX), brackets included
I have this regex
$title = preg_replace('/[\"\*\/\:\<\>\?\|]+/', '', html_entity_decode($title[1], ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8"));
in details only this part is relevant
'/[\"\*\/\:\&...
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RegExes not recognized in SQLiteBrowser
I'm running sqlitebrowser ("DB Browser") 3.11.2 on MX Linux 19.3. The version of sqlitebrowser should handle Regexes - it has since 3.6, IIRC. I've also installed the sqlite pcre extensions, ...
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How to replace or look for italic text within quotation marks
As a text editor, I often come across cases where the author has double marked quotations by putting them in between quotation marks and in italics. In almost all cases it is preferred to use only one ...
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Is there a tool to fix illegal filenames for Windows 10 [duplicate]
Windows 10 has filename rules, which includes illegal characters and too long names for example. You can find all rules in this Microsoft Docs naming a file article. I wanted to make a compact list of ...
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I want to replace a name with special_character name using sed command?
before module name change
module \${a ;
endmodule
after module name change
module \${a_ext;
endmodule
Here, I want to replace any name using sed command , but the issue is when special_character name ...
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Create Fail2ban Rule for Named
As I am trying to create a rule for Fail2ban which seems to me missing for a long while as I being really nerved by in the past I'm also willing to submit it to the world :-)
What's been done?
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Parse, copy, and inject HTML content between files
I'm trying to to parse HTML content from multiple text files and select specific portions of each file and copy this content to use later to paste into the content of another file.
The selected value ...
