Advertisements This is a really simple task, I have a string: s/test/foo/bar I want one group to contain s/test/ and the rest to be contained in another group: group 1: s/test group 2: foo/bar My expression is: (/s/test/)([a-z]+/) This will do half of the job but only captures ‘foo’ in group 2. How do I… Read More Regex recursive capture into single group
Advertisements I have a file with lines I need to extract from the JSON-like syntax. My regex works good in most cases. It extracts desired symbols into a second capture group. But I noticed sometimes my desired text is optionally can be enclosed by some tags which I want to ignore. Sample file: {"title_available" "text1"}… Read More Regex – capture group whish is optionally enclosed in sequence of characters
Advertisements I would like to match everything between start and end given the following string: const test = `this is the start a b c e f end g h `; I have the following regex const output = test.match(/start((.|\n)*)end/m); No, output[0] contains the whole string that matched (with start and end) output[1] is the… Read More Regex result contains extra match/group with just a return
Advertisements In example string: string input = "8240617_8240608_8240573\r\n"; i need to get only the last part: 8240573. In finale application there can be dots and letters. But it will always be end of the line and between "_" and "\r\n". I tried code below but whit no result 🙁 string input = "8240617_8240608_8240573\r\n"; string pattern… Read More C# Regex – How to get substring from between "_" and "\r\n"
Advertisements I want to match any piece of non-empty text surrounded by either (1) single quotes or (2) double quotes or (3) parentheses. So for example "wekj fowekjf e" or ‘ohogkwoefo je e’ but not "dl ekj). I figured out that the pattern (["’]).+\1|\(.+\) works, but if I surround this pattern with an outer pair… Read More Regex pattern breaks when I surround it with parentheses
Advertisements Would need help on how to extract the multiple passport numbers matching after a passport keyword using a regex’s Text: my friends passport numbers are V123456, V123457 and V123458 Regex: (?<=passport)\s*(?:\w+\s){0,10}\s*(\b[a-zA-Z]{0,2}\d{6,12}[a-zA-Z]{0,2}\b) Expected matches output: V123456 V123457 V123458 Actual output: V123456 >Solution : You can’t rely on a lookbehind here since you would need a… Read More How to extract multiple values matching a pattern after a specific keyword?
Advertisements I am trying to create regex that matches files with two or more extensions, but I want to ignore duplicate extensions. Examples of results I want: videogame.exe.exe – Don’t match unknown.pdf.exe – Match Resume.doc.docx – Match SalesNumbers.pdf.pdf – Don’t Match summary.pdf.docx – Match Currently I have the following regex: (\.\w+)(?!\1)\.\w+ This almost works. However,… Read More Regex that matches files with two or more unique extensions
Advertisements I’m parsing name strings that have strange compound formations. The current formation that’s giving me a problem is these names: Edward St. Loe Livermore Henry St. George Tucker III Henry St. John This pattern (.*)(St\.\s\w+)\s(.*) parses the first two names and completely ignores the third. This pattern (.*)(St\.\s\w+)|(St\.\s\w+\s(.*))$ returns the third name as well,… Read More Having an unknown problem with Regex processing names
Advertisements I’m working in a project in Dart, and I need a RegEx to match every single character of the character set [a-zA-Z0-9] that is not inside single quotes, for example: Hello my ‘name’ is I want it to match "Hello my" and "is", but the RegEx needs to be versatile enough to encompass every… Read More Match every character that is not is inside quotes in RegEx Dart
Advertisements I need a regex to match phishing email names, where a specific name or word is NOT found. For example… John Smith (notmyemail@sodifh.com) John Smith (notmyemail@SODI.com) John Smith (jsmit34@gmail.com) John Smith (myRealEmail@mymail.com) Where the bottom email is the only legit email, and needs to be ignored. I have tried similar to: ^(J|j)ohn.(S|s)mith.*\@^((?i)\bmymail\.com\b)*$ But this… Read More REGEX Select From Where Word NOT Found Difficulty