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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Busybox filter string list
Consider I have a list like this:
list='item1.service item2.service item3.target item4.service'
I need to filter this list to get something as:
item1 item2 item4
So, there are two things to notice:...
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what Algorithm does Microsoft Office use for search and replace? [on hold]
i'm in faculty of computers and information and my professor who studied my algorithm ask us to know the Algorithm that used by Microsoft Word to search and replace the words. i do a search on google ...
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Replace all words that start with @ by another word
So, basicly, I need to edit something like this:
@john TEST TEST TEST
@andrew EXAMPLE EXAMPLE
@geady JK JK JK
and I need to replace all of them to get like this:
@replaced TEST TEST TEST
@...
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How do I delete text before and after 1 character
For example I have:
Apple:123456789:pear
watermelon:57952161354:kfc
How do I delete the text that's before and after the ":" to get this:
123456789
57952161354
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Replace text at the first of the specific lines? Sigil or Notepad++ Regex
How can I replace text at the first of specific lines
Example before:
<p>– Your mother created a song?</p>
<p>– She was a pianist.</p>
<p>– Okay then, let us hear the ...
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regular expression help needed
I have a text of 8XX lines that look like this:
id="**02_item2_02" duration="29" style="**joe"
id="02_item3_01" duration="35.5" style="joseph"
The text between id=" and style=" is never the same.
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grep or other regexp to get value of output
How to use grep or any other tool to get a specific value in an output
In the below output I need to get the value 255.00 in the line with Minimum: 255.00 (1.0000)
A pattern like: ...
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Remove all lines that contain characters other than
I have a list of with words and unwanted characters
hag-lawig
ha
waray
katapusan
/
¤
8¨2Þ‹%·/ój
An
ngatanan
nga
makakita
ha
akon
I want to remove all lines that contain characters other than a ...
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Notepad++ Regex help required
I have a several hundred thousand line XML file that is full of data I don't need. I'm looking for a way to bulk delete thousands of irrelevant lines and am aware this can be done through find-and-...
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AlienVault Setup & Configuration Using Syslog for network traffic
I am attempting to deploy an AlienVault instance and am a bit confused about tracking the traffic. I can see that i can set policies and alarms based on certain events and that i think i need to port ...
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How can I replace end line with fixed text when the next line begins with a defined set of characters?
I have several big files with some measurements.
It looks this way:
N 12344;PE 9.9999999;...
#S 0 0 31 44 75 130 165 196...
#S_+ "2 5 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 2...
N 12345;PE 9.9999999;...
#S 0 0 34 57 ...
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How to remove breaking lines between two strings delimeters
I would like to remove all type of breaking lines between two string delimeters basically by replacing any type of breaking line encountered between these two delimeters with a single space character.
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Notepad ++ complex pattern search
Hi i'm looking for a notepad++ regex pattern match in a text, and bring some replacements. But so far what I have come up with does not seem to work.
Sample text:
1 blablablabla. blablnsnsnns, ...
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Remove everything except what is in brackets?
I want to remove all text except for [ and ] and what's between them.
How would I go about doing that in Notepad++?
Example input:
[A B C] bla bla text here [D E F] bla bla text here [G H I] bla ...
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How to include a double quotes mark into RegEx exclusion group in Excel UDF
With help of this Is there an Excel formula to identify special characters in a cell? VBA code and excel UDF, I am checking special characters in my csv file. Using this formula:
=RegExCheck([@...
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GNU find with emacs regex - match character class a specific number of times
I tried using the command find . -regextype emacs -regex '.+[0-9]\{3\}' to find the file test100 with GNU find, but obtained no output, which should have worked according to this reference. Why did ...
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Regex find duplicate of partial string
Im stuck with regex command, to find duplicate of partial string.
1st problem:
This is what I have in my file
1;0197CE75;BC702
2;01966666;BC702
3;018B9AC5;BC702
42;018B9E21;BC702
6;018B9AC5;BC702
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Outlook 2016 - “Check Names” exact match
When writing a mail I insert a user ID into the address field and use the "Check Names" button to gather its corresponding e-mail address. I get a prompt that Outlook has found the ID multiple times.
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Using Notepad++, how can I add multiple suffixes to one prefix?
So I have a list of 3,125 inputs as such:
fdfffff,
fdffffd,
fdffffs,
fdffffa,
fdffffg.
Each input starts with fd but then a random combination of the letters f d s a and g to fill in the next 5 ...
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Delete lines which contain only + signs
I am trying to convert my html document to asciidoc. But result lines have weird + signs like these:
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+
Mandatory Relationship
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* *many-to-many* – because databases don’t support this kind of
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Regex: Remove every two or more spaces between specific tags and leave just a space instead
I want to remove every two or more spaces between specific tags and leave just a space instead:
For example:
<p class="text_obisnuit"> The context of articles, stories, and conversations ...
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Regex: Select all from row except tags
I have this kind of rows.
<li><a href="love-and-attitude.html" title="Love and Attitude">Love and Attitude (24)</a></li>
<li><a href="paint-and-gain.html" title="...
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How to extract all strings in require('')?
My source files are something like this:
abl require('../img/a.png') require('../img/b.png')
bla require('../../img/c.png')
ble <Image source={require('../img/d.png')}
My expected output is:
'../...
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Replacing [0-9] with [A-J] not working with sed
I am working on a command that replaces all digits 0-9 with their corresponding letters in sed. I know I'm doing something wrong, but sed is not interpreting the replacement regex as anything but a ...
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AutoHotKey script replace backslashes with forward slashes
I run a Linux emulator (or subsystem) under Windows 10, and sometimes I need to past Windows paths in the Linux console. Windows paths use backslashes \ to separate directories whereas Linux paths use ...
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How to recursively replace characters with sed?
Is it possible to replace occurrences of a character sequence recursively without iterating over the same sequence again?
By performing a sed as in the following scenarios I can get the mentioned ...
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Regular expression
I need to write a mod_rewrite rule that would match the following string:
/modules/users/users/ae/ghwjzL9D2qpnPqv3FRY3JTZ48N
the only constant part of the string is /ae/.
I need a regular ...
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How to use use find -iregex OR (|) operator?
Uninstalled an application, but it continues to pop up whenever I try to interact with file types that it used to be associated with.
As usual, find has been invaluable in finding and eliminating ...
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Ansible Regexp groups, patterns or something else?
I have to use ansible to manage a few DNS zones.
We use a playbook and some templates without any issue. However, the serial number of the zone(s) is manually modified by the end users and a lot of ...
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Add character to every number via Regex in Notepad++
I have a very basic question which i just can not get my head around. I do have a text document like this:
This is 5 a test!
This 3 is a test!
This is a 9 test!
and i want it to look like this:
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Sed Script to Capitalize “I”s in a Text File
I am trying to create a sed command that capitalizes the pronoun I in a text file. For example "i like dogs." should be "I like dogs." So far I have:
sed 's/ i / I /g'
This doesn't work in a ...
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Nginx server name regex allow dash
I have a site, running on nginx, when comes to the server name i come across some problem regarding the regex, as i know nginx is using Perl Compatible Regular Expressions(PCRE).
Now my server name:
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Notepad++ Replacement String with NUL Truncates After NUL
Using Notepad++, I'm trying to replace a string (in a binary file) like this:
ANULpNULpNULlNULeNUL
With another string like this:
ONULrNULaNULnNULgNULeNUL
So...
Using the following format of ...
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Notepad ++ Regular Expressions for Find and delete a line
i have a subtitle just like below
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00:00:14,030 --> 00:00:15,840
Anya's killing it, don't you think?
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00:00:15,850 --> 00:00:17,230
She's dedicated.
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00:00:17,270 --> 00:00:19,890
She ...
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How to delete all text except for what's inside quotation marks?
I want to remove all text except for what's between quotation marks.
How would I go about doing that?
Example:
Bran could hear the wind in the trees, the clatter of their hooves on the ironwood ...
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Matching second last word in sentence through regular expression?
I'm looking for a way to match the second last word on a line, such as this:
123 Smith St Melbourne VIC 3000
I'd like to match just "VIC". Does someone have a regex I can use?
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Notepad++ regex command for searching two following lines
I want to search a file for a word in a line and another word in the line after that
For example i want to find a line which contains 75 37 and i want the line after that to contain 8B 45 FC
Is there ...
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PowerShell: Search entire file for any string between specific strings and output to another file
I can't seem to find an exact answer for my particular use in one location, so I am asking. I am very new to PowerShell, so the commands are foreign to me.
Using PowerShell, how can I search a file ...
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Bulk move via CMD Regex
I have about 15k files in a flat folder. All are named something like blah blah - whatever.png. Basically, I'd like to move them all into folders named blah blah. I don't want to rename any of them, ...
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Regex to Validate a String
I have a string and validate with regex. My requirement to validate the string is
Total length is 9 characters
First letter should be Alphabetic [A-Za-z]
Second letter should be AlphaNumeric (either ...
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NotePad++ Replacing Text Between 2 Consecutive Words
Scenario:
I'm trying to come up with a regular expression in a file that contains similar chunks, it's basically PGN Files.
Every Chunk Starts With
[Event "
..and ents at
(1/2-1/2|1-0|0-1)
the ...
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Regex to match Bro IDS logs
How to write a single regex to get subject CN,O,ST,C in the strings if exist.
Sample input:
{"ts":1537159826.804384,"uid":"CGvaSh4uPO39lxSdU2","id.orig_h":"192.168.8.32","id.orig_p":1287,"id.resp_h":...
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Regex: Find duplicate tags (with or without the same content)
I have 1000 html pages, and I want to find all the pages that has a duplicate tags ("og:title"), such as:
<meta property="og:title" content="BLAH BLAH" />
etc...
etc...
<meta property="og:...
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Take a file of regexes and return the first match for each in another file
I have two files. a.txt has a list of regexes, separated by newlines. b.txt has lines, some of which match the regexes in a.txt.
What I want: A command (grep, probably) that will take the two files, ...
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How to write a RegEx for searching Dropbox with grepWin
Hoping you can help a RegEx newb out.
I want to use grepWin to search my dropbox for potential issues in filenames that might be causing the sync issue I am having.
There might be a more appropriate ...
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Refactoring Code in Sublime Text 3
Currently I do this with Find All (Cntrl+F old_var, alt+enter new_var), but this replaces words in my comments and strings.
A comment in this answer suggested the PyRefactor plugin which requires ...
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Removing multiple lines in Notepad++
So I've got a list of dns-name and i'd like to filter out all the ones that are generic using preferrably Notepad++.
So for example
Name: test-14.45.name.other.com
Address: 192.168.14.45
Name: ...
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How can I count how much wood a woodchuck chucks using Microsoft Excel?
TL;DR Is there anything like grep in Excel that can help me count whole-word-only instances (e.g. "wood" but not "woodchuck") (and maybe their variations)?
So there's this poem, by mother goose:
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How to get a specific string value from an Apple System profiler SPHardwareDataType
I'm using Bash to rename computers en masse using a part of the serial number, which is pretty easy, but my client has requested that the manufacture year of each machine be appended to the end.
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Grep on macOS: find unique occurrences of a capturing group in regular expression
I am on macOS and would like to get into using grep (or a similar tool) to find unique occurrences of a certain pattern in a codebase. For example, for finding all console.somemethod() calls in ...
