Questions tagged [pcre]
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions(PCRE) was initially developed as a regex engine for PERL, but grew into a library that many other languages (like PHP and Apache) use for their regex. Use with the [regex] tag and any appropriate language tags.
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Missing pcre(Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) object files while building TWRP custom recovery
Actually I am getting these errors while building TWRP custom recovery. I allso tried clean build make clean && make -j$(nproc --all) recoveryimage again and again but it always get stuck here....
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Why regex pattern is validated in some languages like Java, JavaScript but failed in Python and Regex101?
I have a regex pattern ^[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}. It validated in Java and the Browser console but failed in Python. Various online regex testers produced different results. Regex101 displayed ...
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Regex for matching a certain number of words
I have the following string pattern, from which I'm trying to grab the first 4 to 5 words after the first occurrence of -:
OBJ: redacted - We can't save this record: because the “FBE Record-Trigger: ...
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Regex to match final word of first line of two-line subs
I'm trying to fine-tune a regex to quickly check if the auto-break feature of Subtitle Edit has produced any funny-looking breaks syntactic/semantic-segmentation-wise.
I have put together an extensive ...
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Unexpected Regex result that should not be possible
I'm getting unexplained results from a Regex pattern that I am working on, so I have boiled it down to the simplest part of the expression and it seems reasonable to conclude that these results should ...
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Is it possible to split a hex string like this using just regex?
Given the following input string (with no whitespaces in it):
000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F10111213...
Is it possible to write a substitution regex that would produce the following output?
\t0x00, ...
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Regex to only return matches when followed by a specific word
I have a fairly long json string that contains a number of results from different automation playbooks. Here is a short snippet:
"name":"update_notable_hash","responses":...
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Regext to find and remove lyrics
I have a workflow that separates the subtitles from a video and then I strip the hearing impaired and other extraneous material from the file. I just want the speaking parts.
The lyrics to songs are ...
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Unable to match whole string using PCRE regex in C++
This regular expression '(?:[sdmt]|ll|ve|re)| ?\p{L}+| ?\p{N}+| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+ works as expected to match Ġmeousrtr, this can be seen in the shared link https://regex101.com/r/UR0P6T/...
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Regex case-insensitive search, but have output match the case in the regex
Recently I rewrote my program to find English words that are made of chemical symbol abbreviations, for example "HErSHeY". I came up with this dynamic regex:
grep -Pi "^($(paste -s -d'|'...
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PHP perl regular expression - URL not preceded by equal sign and possible single or double quote
I'm trying to create a perl regular expression that matches a URL that is not preceded by an equal sign and one single or double quote (optional) ignoring whitespace. The code below gives an error: ...
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Regular expression
I would like to have a regular expression to get the number between the '_' and the '/' only and I want to match numbers 1 to 9999 and exclude numbers that are only 0’s
catalogue/tipping-the-...
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Python and PCRE regex that are the same give different outputs for the same input
I am trying to implement the minbpe library in zig, using a wrapper over PCRE library.
The pattern in Python is r"""'(?:[sdmt]|ll|ve|re)| ?\p{L}+| ?\p{N}+| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+|\s+(?!\S)|\...
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Why fountain character matches anchor character in regular expression inside range?
In PCRE2 I got a problem with regular expression /[⚓️]/. It has match for string "⛲️".
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Unexpected behaviour persists only inside range.
Can somebody explain why is this happening?
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Same regular expression to get 1 or 2 parts of filename
Can anyone help me please?
It is for mod-rewrite in .htaccess
From this url file name:
car-audi-tt-2
I need to get the full string.
But if the string i get is this:
car-audi-tt-2-2019
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