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Hi, I want to do a special tool for my customers, and this tool in the begginer have to get all url's of first results of google image:
Example:
1- If I search for "sun", the url of google image is...

So I've figured out how to parse my html source for IMG tags, gaining the attributes I need. (src, width, height) (I actually need its size in bytes but that's a whole different question) Yet I can't seem to figure out how to combine my regex...

I need a regular expression that matches HTML tags which can contain line breaks / carriage returns. This is easy in Perl or PHP because the dot (any) token matches line breaks, but unfortunately it does not in JavaScript. The attached code...

Hi,

I am working on C# and ASP.Net1.1

I require a reqular expression which can accept any character other than

single quote('), double quote("), @, %,#

Can anyone help me in this

Thanks

I have hundreds of TXT files, in ASCII format, that have a lots of page-breaks that I want to remove or replace.  
    When I look at it in Windows Notepad, it just looks like a little vertical rectangle on its own line.  As best I can tell from...

I need to remove leading zeroes from the following types of text strings.  I'm looking for the shortest, fastest way of converting this field.  I'll be using setvalue to post these to another text field.  The initial field's character count can...

 am using below to capture the last word of a given string:
REG_EXTRACT(EMER_CONTACT_NAME,('.*(\w+)\s(\w+)'),2)
The value(s) returned is as expected, it is the last word in the string prior to the last instance of whitespace.  What I need is a...

Hi experts,

I'm programming in PHP and can't figure out how to match words with accented characters (éèë etc)
So in the following example preg_replace should give the same result in both cases:
$mainstr = "Het getal  één heeft accenten";...

I am using a regex to parse a csv file, and am using this   ,(?!(?:[^\",]|[^\"],[^\"])+\")

It works fine except for the case of text enclosed in double quotes ending with a comma, such as [the second column]:

"","1A50295,","FORD","FORD"
...

This regex returns IP address:

/\b(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\b/

However I'd like to combine it with the...

I would like to extend my query to only search for whole words so I changed it into using something like this:

select name,keyword from table where regexp_like (keyword,'{mysearch}','i')

But this will match any occurence of the letters...

Hi,
    Can anyone of you help me with a regular expression which will not allow certain special characters like ~`@#$ . All others (like all alphanumerics and Chinese and any other language characters) should be allowed. This regular expression...

Hi all,

I'm trying to get "Regular Expressions" to work in MS Access. I am relatively new to "RegExp" and have been reading up on it in experts exchange. I've created a module in Access and added the reference to Microsoft VBScript Regualr...

Trying to move files between Linux machines using SCP with a regular expression.  I can't tell if SCP uses regular expressions.  Can this be done-- is there a better way?




Regex search:
    /media/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)/([a-z_0-9]+\.mp3)
...

Regular Expression.  ASP.NET.  VB.NET.  .NET 2.0 Validation Controls

I have this regular expresion that I need to modify:
 ValidationExpression="^(([0]?[1-9])|([1][0-2])):(([0-5][0-9])|([1-9])):([0-5][0-9]) [AP][M]$">

This requres that a...

Hi all

i have a filelist-
<<file list>>
1_abc thisfile.exe
23_fsw thatfile.exe
------------------------
And i have many files which only have a part of the above in their name like-
<<directory>>
1_abc.exe
23_fsw.exe...

Hi,

I currently run ubuntu through VB and after mounting windows drive/accessing files through gnome, I keep getting this message "Binary file (standard input) matches" when I try to run "grep -0 name"

Any idea what could be causing this?
...

do you guys know any software that I can use to draw dfa/nfa nicely? I used to use paint to draw the circles and arrows but it doesn't look really nice.. do you have any freeware software that I can download and easy to use that will help me to...

Hi,
The user can able to enter either whole numbers or doubles in textbox. ex: 10, 0.2 ,1.25
How to validate the number using Regular Expressions, so that the function only work for whole numbers and  doubles. How to write the regular...

I've got a C# DirectoryInfo object which contains a list of folders.  When I copy a file from one of those folders, I want to rename it to include the folder name from whence it came.  So, if the path (DirectoryInfo.FullName result) is:

   ...

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/PHP/Q_22050007.html

I have read this topic about how to use regex to strip out proxies from a page. Here is the final code by TeRReF :

<?php

$s = '80.249.72.180:80          elite proxy   ...

I want to find strings between curly brackets (using C# Regex split)

sample string:
This is a test string {First curly bracket} This is a test string {Second curly bracket}

output i need in string array:
{First curly bracket}
{Second...

I am simply trying to do an edit replace on ‘special’ character in large text files using VBScript.  I have easily accomplished this in PERL, but need to port it to a VBScript for other users.

Upfront facts:
WSH Version 5.6
VBScript Version...

I've set up the following regular expression in .net code:

Regex objDatePattern=new Regex("\\d{1,2}[/-]\\d{1,2}[/-]\\d{4}");

I want the date format to be MM/DD/YYYY, but this is also accepting MMDDYY.  Does anybody see what I did wrong,...

software:  MS's FTP.exe command line.
I am dynamically creating an FTP script from a batch file, so that each time it runs it creates a folder on the FTP host with the current date time in the format "yyyy-mm-dd at hhmmss"

rem another line...

Hi,

I am looking to parse a json response from bash shell. I tried setting up jsawk but wasn't successful. can I get some help with sed or awk to parse the json response below. I know how to do this python but would like to know solutions in...

Hi,
I want to download urls recursively,
starting from : http://code.google.com/apis/maps/,
but I want to download only those URLs which
match the this pattern :
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/*

I tried wget -r -D...

Hi,

I have the following query that does not seen to work under DB2.

SELECT * FROM tblDepartment WHERE sDepartmentName LIKE '[AM]%'

I am trying to get a list of all department names that start with A or M. As far as I can tell, the []...

How would I code a regular expression to match a time. The input format is hh:mm. However, the user could enter any of the following as valid:
'09:10'; '9:10' ' 9:10' (leading blank-not likely, but I suppose, possible), and possibly just 1-12...

Ello everybody,

Anyone know how to do this code in php to mysql

I've got several web forms, default.aspx, with sixty to eighty some odd questions on each.
The questions are numbered 1., 2., ... 9., 10., etc. and some of them reference a previous question, like "If Yes to #5 then do this..."

These are for...

ACCEPTS ONLY
 - Alphanumeric (uppercase and lowercase)
 - Accepts dashes, periods, commas and spaces

I am looking for a Regular Expression to test for printable characters only.

Hello everybody,
 I am new to regular expressions and I need to know if they can help in solving this problem, I have a field in a table called "drivingliscnumber" which is a text field that includes dots (.), commas (,), hyphens (-) and...

Dear experts,
I failed compiling and linking the PCRE regular expression library for C++ under Visual Studio 2008. Obviously, this library aims at Unix-Systems and documentation related to building on Windows systems is spare.

I downloaded...

Hi Experts.
I can't seem to figure this one out.
How do can I get the first occurrence of of a certain Regex expression in the string ?

To be more specific... I have a long string with a lot of data. I need to get the indexOf the first...

I sure this is not too difficult, but how would i remove querystring parameter from a url eg:

page.aspx?Name=Paul&PageNo=1PageDir=Next;

I need to clear PageNo and PageDir from the url

 in c#

thanks

Experts,

Much to my frustration I am unable to get PCRE to build with my very small application. This is probably due to lack of ability and experience and was hoping that someone could throw a little magic to assist.

The following thread...

Hey,

How can I parse images and and links from a WebBrowser control, using MSHTML (.NET 2.0 btw). I ... basically need code, not words. So, e.g. http://www.google.com/, I would like to collect all the images and the links in 2 separate...

II have been handed an excel spreadsheet of contact information, and asked to convert it into a useful format for eventual import into other databases.

Unfortunately, the existing Excel spreadsheet format of column 1, field 1 is an entire...

Assuming there's an @ sign in a text string, would you please provide the regex that will find all characters on the left side of the @ sign that are not:
a-z
A-Z
0-9
. (dot)
- (dash)
+ (plus sign)
_ (underscore)

And on the right side...

how

I am trying to match one or more 4-digit numbers within a string.  The regex should NOT match any numbers with more than 4 digits, only those with exactly 4 digits.  (i.e. a 4 digit year)

I tried the simple [0-9]{4} expression but this also...

Hi all,

I want to use Regex to parse a number of HTML tag groups that share similar structure. The structure looks like below:

<div id="SXGroupContainer">
  <div id="SXGroupHeader>blahblahblah...</div>
 <div...

I need to perform an expression on the first record of each Group. So i need to identify such. By using Onfirstrecord if can get the first record in the report but i need it by group.
My report is grouped by Employee name

I'm looking for a regex for a valid Windows file name which doesn't contain such characters : \ / : * ? < > |

Can anyone show me an example please ? Thanks

I am trying to create an XPath 2.0 expression that will navigate to an attribute, test its value, e.g. "S" or "Sensitive" then replace the text with other text in the attribute's parent.

Using XSLT 2.0 is not an option as I am accepting an XSD...

I have a string that uses SOH or ascii 001 as a delimiter.  I want to use the split function. How can I pass the ASCII SOH character to the split function?

I am looking for a regex which matches an empty string and positive integer number. It should not match if string contain other than 0-9 .
I am using in c# program ^\d+$ to validate a number but it rejects empty string and also I want to put...

Hi,

I have a page that uses a JavaScript function to open a new window. The page to open is stored in the variable 'pageName'

I use:
var pageName = "<%= ResolveUrl("~/uk/en/projects/projectpopup.aspx")%>?projectid=" + projectid
...

I am trying to do something like "deleting all blank lines" or "increasing the line height of a blank line" in a input textfield.

I guess the first task is to capture all the "blank lines" in the input field.  So what is the RegExp pattern for...

Hi Experts,

I need to write a regular expression that detects markup. Can anyone advise how to write an expression that can find and replace the following:

**this is a bold paragraph** with <b>this is a bold paragraph</b>
or
_this is an...

How do I use substitute to replace forward slash (/)
I want to replace:

../../../
with
../../../Co

Thanks

Hello, I want my preg_replace change all (multiple) spaces into one charachter | , EXCEPT those spaces that are inside quotes, but I can't find the right expression.  

Some examples:
testA testB testC testD            -->      testA|testB|testC|testD
testA...

I have created the following RegEx to validate user passwords.  
The expression is not validating the length or case criteria I intend it to do.  

Password must be at least 8 characters in length (maximum is 32).
Password must contain the...

Hi ,

I am very poor in writing regular expressions.Can anybody help me in writing a regular expression which accepts only numeric values.

Ex:12345,7890453458
any length
But it should not accpet alpha numeric or any symbols...

Hi,

I have the following HTML in my body

 

and i want to replace it with

just the inner content of em tags,wherever that em tag occur appears in the HTML it should be replaced with its inner content, like in above case:

 
...

Hi,
I need a regular expression which will validate only german phone numbers.
It needs to begin with +49 or 49 and contain 10 more numbers (i.e. +49 1234567890).
I have this one but it's not strict enough:
^((\+\d{1,3}(-| )?\(?\d\)?(-|...

Hi,

How do I use a Regular Expression to find out  if a string is at least N characters?

Thanks.

Hi I need to find out what the regular expression for allow valid domain names, i have the first section from a previous post i made.

[^0-9A-Za-z-]

I want to check for valid domains allowing domains such as

     domainname.com
    ...

Hi,
I have to insert/append some lines (for example)

This
is
a
test

at the and of a file.

What's the easiest way to do this?

Thanks

Hi!

I need help with a regex that can extract sentences from a paragraph of text, I need to do some processing but use sentences as the smallest unit of work. So far, I have come up with the regex

(\.\s)?(?<sentence>[A-Z][^\.]+\.)

I...

i need a regex to match the href part of a url
the links are already html links meaning they are already <a href="xxx">xxx</a>

i'm currently trying to use href=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+)
but it returns the href=" along with the match.

that is the...

I'm using URL Rewrite module on IIS 7.5/Windows 2008.
And When I tried to excute site.com/a b c/ then
got query string is "abc" it is igroning the white-spaces.
Plase help.
Sorry for bad English.

I have a regular Expression challenge.
In the code that I've added, I anticipate two not identical matches, but instead I get two identical matches:

Expected Output:
Name Value  
---- -----  
1    00:00:03
0    09:40:23

Actual...

I have several re-write rules setup using the IIS 7.5 URL Rewrite add-on.  All of the re-writes are working fine.  Currently with all of these re-writes enabled, when a user requests http://domain.com/ they are being redirected to another server....

regex match URL starting with http:// or https:// that contains a period in the folder path

example matching URLs:
http://anyhost.somewhere.to/anyhost.fakedomain.com/
http://anyhost.somewhere.to/anyhost.fakedomain.com/test.htm...

using sed - I need to delete one line above and one line below any line with "ldots" on it.  

In the example below all of the lines with "\backslash" and all the lines with "\end_layout" have to be deleted.   There are other  lines with ...

Need a regular expression that I can use with TextPad's "find in files" to identify instances of the & ampersand character between opening and closing <CFQUERY></CFQUERY> tags in a ColdFusion application. The opening tag does take several...

I want all links matching "pdf" to be red.

In the example below, the link is only made red if it ends with "pdf" however I want it to be made red if "pdf" is anywhere in the link.

I need a UNIX command, preferably a one-liner, which will perform several edits to a comma-delimited text file.  For testing, I have attached the files before.txt and after.txt, which illustrate the desired output.

The command should...

Hi,

The regular expressions provided in the code area are not working as expected.
Can anyone help update and tell me why??

Any help appreciated.

Thanks for your time.
Steve

I have following table (Sample)

CATEGORY       PREFIX          EXACT_MATCH
-----------------    ---------         -----------------
1                          '123'              'Y'
2                          '123'              'N'
3      ...

I am new regarding Regex strings.
Could someone please provide me a sample Regex that matches a while statement that includes the contents of the while statement's open and close curly braces?  I need a Regex string that will work in C#.

See...

Hi,

I am trying to input the Phone Numbers from our Phone System into AD for OCS in E.164 Format. I already have an employee ID link between the systems so the update should be straight forward but I am having real problems working with Regex....

I have several pages where I am using php and I need to find and replace

"$comp",$num+1,".php"

with

"$comp"

However, the +1 in the original is +1 to +32 in the pages

I need someone to reply with the code I need to do this..

Hi everyone,

Would somebody be able to provide me with a Regular Expression thats compatible with C# that will match an entire image tag where the src attribute does NOT contain a jpg or gif extension?

Could this also be case insensitive?
...

I have to do a program that will solve the N queens problem with the simulated annealing algorthm.I don't know what data structure i must use? I will not do it with backtracking or with recurcive algorithms but with simulated annealing. Do you...

I have a table similar to the one below on a html page. How do I parse it to an php array using the table headings as an index? Also how do I avoid converting floating point numbers to a string.
Thanks.

Hi Guys,
Im using the code snippet below to turn standard URLs into Links (that actually open via the JS function open_url).

Can anyone help me modify this so that it will ignore URLs that are already links?

I am trying to come up with two different RegEx patterns in C# that will extract all of the text between two given HTML tags.  The patterns I am currently using can be found below.  These patterns work, however, it returns <tag>this is the text...

Hi,
I have a ASP.NET C# web-page that has two form fields called:
WebAddress
WebAddressContents

When user clicks the SAVE button the contents of the form is saved to a TXT file, with the WebAddress as the TXT file name and also as the...

hi
i have currently two text.

STRING 1 requirement
1>Output to the browser all numbers greater than 4 digits contained in the given input text using PHP.
2>the output must work whatever is the text given as input

$str1 ="On February...

Here's what I have..

<script type="text/javascript">
sflkjasdfkjsafsf sdf sdf sdf sdf sd f
sjd ssdf fsf sdf sdf sdf sdslfjsklfjsdlkfjs
dfsf sf sfd sf sdf
dflksdfjklsdf sdd s
sdkfsdklsd sdf sdfs df f sjfsdklfsdf
</script>

I'm trying...

I have a script that is leverageing inotifyway -- I am trying to exxclude 2 different filenames  -- one being a *.delivered and the second being any file containg AR in the name. Something is wrong with my REGEX for the exclude.

inotifywait -m...

Hi All,

I have a string variable like so:

string strDesc = "<span title=More of something here>Something here</span>"

This variables content can differ but the structure stays the same i.e.
"<span title=*>*</span>"

Could anyone...

I need to remove Whitespace / Tabs / Spaces / Carriage returns from  a String of text - as in the two examples below.  The RegEx should only remove this from the outside (leading AND trailing) of the data, and not within the data itself - sort of...

Is it possible to use javascript and reg ex to allow only ASCII characters and strip anything from text that isn't considered ASCII? For example, if I'm pasting text from one system to another, can I strip any character not recognized as a valid...

I need a regular expression that does the following:

If line starts with =, then add = to the end of line.
If line starts with ==, then add == to the end of line.
If line starts with ===, then add === to the end of line.
If line starts with...

I need to convert this UTC timestamp to PST:

5/29/2008 2:06:00 PM
so it reads:
5/29/2008 6:06:00 AM

Assuming this requires an expression, Im not sure how to code this.

thanks.

I am migrating a number of sites from cPanel to Plesk, and would like to automate the domain setup process.

I am able to successfully setup the domain in plesk using this command:

/usr/local/psa/bin/domain --create   domain.com    -owner...

I recently posted a questions here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/JavaScript/Q_22895346.html

This asked about how to do some pattern matching to deny suspect phone number submissions through my web pages. ...

Hi Experts:

    I want to use a regular expression to help me replace repeating multi-line SQL statements sections for me. From some webpage I was instructed that the perl style regular expression in UltraEdit software can help me to do...

I am trying to replace encoded http%3A%2F%2F with http:// in a string using regular expressions in a jsp...
Not much luck so far, it replaces the first occurrence but the second one is replaced OK, but ":" column is missing...
So the second...

How can i write a regex to only accept alphanumeric, space, dash and underscore + any of these french character àâéêèìôùûç.

Also the length of string must be under 20 character.

I am using below to capture the last word of a given string:
REG_EXTRACT(EMER_CONTACT_NAME,('.*(\w+)\s(\w+)'),2)
The value(s) returned is as expected, it is the last word in the string prior to the last instance of whitespace.  What I need is a...

The below code is a part of a macro running within Excel 2007. The replace portion is actually replacing my currentname with "\4", literally. I need it to replace it with the regular expression of "\4", ie the 4th part of pattern. Hopefully this...

How do I trim only the trailing whitespace in a multiline string?

e.g.
 

desired result: