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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How to correct punctuation with a regex in Notepad++?
My sample text is this:
This is a demo . Of all the places you want to go here! Superb work !
Is your name John ? Or is it that you are hiding your name? Seems to be a good work.But as you know this ...
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Notepad++ Match pattern across lines
I have a file with pairs of variables separated by other text:
THING_1
Number_Of_Thing = 7
Other lines
Type_Of_Thing = 1
THING_2
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I want to find each pair of Number_Of_Thing = 7 and Type_Of_Thing = ...
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Regex pattern to find all matches in string with conditions
I am currently stuck with a regex problem.
I have a string:
Take dog, dog, dog, cat, dog;
Dont dog, dog, cat, dog;
How would I match all of the "dog" and skip "cat" with pcre2 ...
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How to escape an already escaped string in Regex
I am using the below code, as part of a script to turn a canonical name into a distinguished name.
However should I present the CN "test.example.com/This\/is\/a\/escaped/\space/\OU/person, I get ...
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How to Preend or Append File Name to Reflect Number of Pages in PDF using "qpdf" and "perl"
I am running the script at the bottom as a one-liner but have expanded for ease of reading.
Assume the directory contains the following file: File (11).pdf.
When the script executes, it simply repeats ...
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\G Token in Regex [closed]
I am trying to get a grip of \G token and struggling to understand its proper use. I went through some of the constructs using \G token and I am totally at a loss, how to use them, when to use them or ...
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Add an underscore after numbers in Notepad++
I have a scenario where I have list with some numbers in Notepad++. Here is the sample text:
1-This is item one
2_This is item two
3This is item three
4_This is item five
5This is item six
6 This is ...
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Insert a char just before a particular set of words using Regex
I want to use GREP/Regex in Adobe InDesign. Following is the sample data:
Rat: a mammal. Camel: an animal who lives in desert. An aeroplane: a machine that flys. The muddy water: water full of mud and ...
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Find regex pattern and use it in the next set of repeating lines until another like it replaces it
I'd like to find a pattern that rapeats every few sets of the second where I'd like to move it to.
The only example I could think of right now is a file listing; but I've needed this so many times. ...
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regexp multiple lines grep
I am looking for a correct regexp to return the first match and the new line.
Let's say the logfile is like:
Warning-[ABC] blablabla$
/path1/path2/path3/file
The dollar at the end of the first line ...
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Which regex can I use to replace Greek capital vocals with tonos to ones without it, in Bulk Rename Utility application?
I would like to replace in a lot of filenames, the Greek capital vocals with tonos, with the ones without it:
Ά > Α
Έ > Ε
Ή > Η
Ί > Ι
Ό > Ο
Ύ > Υ
Ώ > Ω
I know how to replace them ...
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Apple Numbers RegEx not working as expected (Negative lookahead)
RegEx.Extract Negative lookahead help needed due to what works in RegEx Support website does not work in Apple Numbers
(?<=XYZ((?!\d+).)*)\d+
This is invoice from company XYZ - 1234545 product name ...
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regex to find non-price consecutive digits not immediately after certain word for Apple Numbers
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How to find invoice number from different companies which may have different order of invoice number, unit cost and total cost?
Following is specific example of a company XYZ which I need to get ...
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adding quotes to set of comma separated IP addresses in notepad++
Please, I have a set of comma separated IP addresses and I want to add quotes to each IP addresses to that I can assign the set a powershell variable and parse each IP address strings in the variable ...
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How to extract a text in between two patterns (potentially containing floating lookbehind) with only one invocation?
I'm trying to match any characters (except line break characters) in between xxx<1+ whitespaces>" and whitespace.
The format of the input string is the following:
xxx<1+ whitespaces>&...
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