Category "regex"

Regular expression for words not starting or ending with vowels?

I used this regex: ^[aeiou](\w|\s)*[aeiou]$ for words starting and ending with vowels and it works fine. But when I use this regex: ^[^aeiou](\w|\s)*[^aeiou]$

Regular Expression to search longest word in a string

I have a string: var str = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit"; Is there a way to find the longest word in a string using regex? This w

Regex matched text between tags is too greedy

I am trying to extract text from a string, and have trouble with laziness/greediness. In the example I want the piece of text to match <b>I want this pie

Regex finding models from product list

I am trying to retrieve the product models from a list of product titles. Since it is difficult to retrieve model from title, I decided starting from getting s

Chronic ripgrep / vim Plugin Error on Load: "-complete Used Without -nargs"?

I recently added ripgrep to my list of vim plugins and, immediately after installation, I began receiving this error message whenever I loaded up vim: Error det

Strict regex in Pandas replace

I need to write a strict regular expression to replace certain values in my pandas dataframe. This is an issue that was raised after solving the question that I

Regex to match words with hyphens and/or apostrophes

I was looking for a regex to match words with hyphens and/or apostrophes. So far, I have: (\w+([-'])(\w+)?[']?(\w+)) and that works most of the time, though

Make certain characters of a word from string bold

I need to highlight a certain characters from a string, I tried str_replace and preg_replace. But these work only if full word is entered, $text = str_replace(

Click an exact match text in Cypress

In Cypress, .contains command yields all matching elements, so for clicking in a dropdown item with a text on it, .contains works fine. But I'm facing the probl

javascript validate SSID and WPA/WPA2

I am trying to get 2 functions to validate an SSID and WPA2 passcode. function isValidSSID(ssid) { return (regex) } and function isValidWPA(passcode)

Reading accounting information with regex

Context In my daily job I lost a lot of time putting values in excel from a balance sheet manually, so I start learning how to code in python to speed up my wor

How to screen double quotes in Google Docs re2 expressions?

I'm trying to screen double quotes in regular expression on Google Sheets and there's no luck. A1 cell text = some "name" My formula =REGEXEXTRACT(A1;"\"(.*)\"

jQuery Validate money field, accept spaces?

I have a custom validator for money fields, it accepts values like 12,00$ 122.04$ 12123123 Now, I want to make it accept theese values: 1 200$ 1 200,22$ So ac

Insert colon separator into timings ( i.e convert 1230a to 12:30a and 1430 to 14:30 )

I have a requirement in my project whereby we have some input boxes and we are supposed to enter timings. Timings can be entered in any format i.e 12:30a or 12

Regular expression to replace inner credit card numbers with X's?

Is it possible to use regex to replace all characters in a card number with an X, except for the left-outer 4-digits and right-outer 4-digits, when the card num

Regular expression pipe confusion

How come this code returns true? string to match: ab pattern: /^a|b$/ but when I put parentheses like this: pattern: /^(a|b)$/ it will then return false.

Regular Expression to Match the Whole line

I'm new to scripting and have been reading about how to use regular expressions. I want to fetch the complete line matching a pattern. My output is: 64 bytes fr

What's a regex that matches all numbers except 1, 2 and 25?

There's an input of strings that are composed of only digits, i.e., integer numbers. How can I write a regular expression that will accept all the numbers excep

Regex matching plus or minus

Could someone please look at the following function and explain the regex for me as I don't understand it and I don't like using something I don't understand as

Wildcard matching in Java

I'm writing a simple debugging program that takes as input simple strings that can contain stars to indicate a wildcard match-any *.wav // matches <anythin