Programming :: Simple Regex For PHP Preg_replace() To Replace   But NOT  
Nov 16, 2010
I've got an incredibly simple regular expression need but I've spent several hours trying and even this insanely simple one is eluding me completely... All I want to do is, in a piece of text, replace with but leave all strings that are ALREADY alone. Eg. on one run of the regex on this
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What will a proper PHP / PCRE regular expression look like that will replace all with but leave all the already existing (e. g. those that are already correct) in a string alone? this appears simple (at least to me) but I've invested several hours into this and still no solution. I suspect for an expert it is incredibly simple...!
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Jun 20, 2011
My friend lost her dissertation and she had only a pdf copy of it. I am trying to convert the pdf into an odt format. After copy-pasting the content into an odt, i need to replace all paragraph breaks which are not following a dot with a space. For which i thought of using the regular expression feature of Libre Office. I've not succeeded so far.
I tried: to replace [:alpha:]$ or [a-z]$ or [a-z]>$ with space, but none of them worked. Finding [a-z] seems to work, finding [a-z]> too. So did finding $ (end of paragraph) but if i combine any regex with $ then it doesn't find anything.
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Apr 7, 2009
I'm fairly comfortable with emacs but I can't seem to find how to do this. I deal with a lot of text files and find myself performing a lot of regular expression replacements to correct the formatting of the text -- or to extract certain tidbits of data from large ugly-looking files.
I know how to perform a regular expression replacement in one buffer at a time. But how do you perform a regular expression search and replace across all open buffers? I have found a method to perform a regex search and replace across a directory by marking files but I need to do it in the open buffers.
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Oct 7, 2010
i'm a college student studying pc programing, and i was given today a special work and i have to program using miranda... which i've never used it >.< can anyone give me a hand to where to download, how to compile, and a simple tutorial for making a simple program or something?
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Jul 25, 2011
On windows I really only used Notepad++ as my text editor, it had two features that I loved.What I need to accomplish is what I would do with Notepad++ column editor.I could have like 100 lines, and place the cursor at a column, and goto edit>column editor, and I could insert an incrementing number. (I could also pad the incrementing number with 0s, this was GREAT for making batch files among other things.)So each line at that column had a number higher than the previous line.The other feature that I used sometimes was a search/replace with regex patterns.Does anyone know of an editor that has those features for linux? I am mostly after the column editor insert feature but if you know of one with both features that would rock.
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May 14, 2011
I need a regex expression to read IP address from lines like these for my perl script:
Code:
2011.05.13-14:54:58, test@xyz.com, 180.211.51.11, pop3
2011.05.13-14:57:26, test@xyz.com, 160.234.47.12, pop3
2011.05.13-14:57:54, www@abcd.com, 166.22.22.224, imap
2011.05.13-14:57:55, www@somedomain.com, 172.58.22.154, imap
2011.05.13-15:03:08, www@example.com, 190.22.120.44, pop3
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Jan 13, 2011
In a bash-script, only the case if a regular expression does not match is relevant.herefore I used the exclamation mark !. But where to place it?
These two work fine, but are they equivalent?
Code: if ! [[ $abc =~ $pattern ]]; then or
Code: if [[ ! $abc =~ $pattern ]]; then Where is the ! placed more correct?
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Jun 1, 2011
I'm just starting out with bash scripting (yesterday, really). I want to add a file to each user's home directory, pretty simple really, and send it out via our Apple Remote Desktop system to our Macs. Here is my script: Code: #!/bin/bash
for i in $(ls -d /Users/*)
doif [ -e $i/.tcshrc ]
thenecho "$i/.tcshrc exists!"elseecho "$i/.tcshrc does not exist"
[code]....
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May 5, 2010
I'm using bash scripting to find any file that matches a path governed by the following regular expression:
"(monthly|nightly).[0-9]+/home/(user1|user2)/.mailbox/"
to match files like:
monthly.9/home/user1/.mailbox/l23131564
nightly.15/home/user2/.mailbox/cur/6546213
I've tried:
Code:
myRegex="(monthly|nightly).[0-9]+/home/(user1|user2)/.mailbox/"
find ./ -regextype posix-egrep -regex $myRegex
and it just spins and never gives me an answer, even though the file structure isn't that big.
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May 31, 2011
So those of you that know me will agree that when it comes to awk I don't usually ask a lot of questions ... however this one has me stumped. I am guessing I have missed something obvious but for the life of me (and I have tested at great length) I cannot find it So the scenario is this: The following awk code should identify all versions of libgpg-error within the attached file (see below) and only show one for each version:
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Apr 3, 2011
I'm writing a script to read user input for a computername.I need a check that a given userinput is valid.Right now I use grep like this (for sure not optimal):Quote:
if echo "$name" | grep -q '[^a-z][^A-Z][^0-9]'; then
echo error
else
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Jun 9, 2010
the following works and BASH doesn't complain, but VIM highlights the closing square bracket is if it sees a syntax error. Is there a better way to express regex in a case statement or is this an issue with VIM?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
[code]...
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Jun 10, 2011
Code:
g echo ${mm[$j]}
4 BashNotes
[code]...
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Feb 23, 2011
I'm fairly new to Perl and regular expressions. I have a large collection of files with their file names in the following general format: string - another string with spaces (2004) [year].ext I would like to know how I could create a regex to separate out:
the first string
another string with spaces
year
extension
If you know of a better way of doing it without regular expressions, I would be happy to hear that way too.
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Mar 19, 2010
I'm trying to find out how to extract the string between the 2 <title> tags: <title>this is what i want</title>.I found lots of results but nothing I've tried works.. EG:$page =~ m/<title>($.)</title>/gism;
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Jan 17, 2010
I was wondering if you insert a variable into a regex in Perl, will the contents of the variable be expanded by the regex engine?
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Mar 13, 2011
I have .txt.gz files that store queries made on a browser, d my job is to analyze them.The information is stored in a xml-like style.Quote:
<browser>lwp-trivial/1.41</browser>
<http_code>200</http_code>
<keywords />
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Jan 9, 2010
how do you include a string variable as part of a regex in Perl?
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Apr 8, 2011
I want to match for this string:
Code:
Content-Transfer-Encoding:[:space:]base64
Content-Disposition:[:space:]attachment;[:space:]filename="%variable%"
Both lines are new lines, so they won't be inline. Other than that, they are all constants, I want this regex match to be an if statement rather than returning match string. so if the $content variable contains some string that matches:
Code:
if `sed "//p"` ;
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Mar 22, 2011
Im trying to extract the href of a <link> tag from a html page however as some links contain further preferences I seem to be unable to extract them, do you have any idea how I can write this: Link:
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Nov 10, 2010
am trying to find a proper regex to match the two numbers in the following log entry.
Code:
15:08:16.142 INF Found 64468
15:08:16.142 ERR [Uniform test code=64469]
Basically the pattern I'm looking for will match the two different numbers spanned across two lines.Thought I need to use multi-line mode as follow but this doesn't match on [URL]...
Code:
/^($[0-9]{5}
[0-9]{5})$/m;
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Nov 19, 2010
How do i use perl regex to extract the hostname from a FQDN?
I have
Quote:
$host=ganymede.a.linux.com
$host=io.a.linux.com
$host=europa.a.linux.com
i just want the characters which are to the left of the first .(dot) in FQDN name. I could get it using substr and split function,but how do i get it through regex.
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Apr 8, 2011
I have a sed match that matches for certain string of a regex expression:
Code:
tname=$(echo "$contents" | sed -n 'some pattern')
How do I match for multiple strings in the $contents and return them as an array? for example
Code:
contents="this is a text, just to match patterns, here is another text to be matched"
the sed func would be able to recognize both "text"s, but only one is outputted?
Possible to put it in an array? so ${bar[0]} gives one and ${bar[1]} gives another
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Jan 20, 2009
I'm having a small issue with regex matching in Perl. I'm pretty certain it's a simple fix, but it all looks correct to me...
If I run the following:
Code:
It prints out all the lines containing a 'P', as one would expect. But when the regex is
Code:
I get zero lines printed. It seems to match only single-character patterns.
The file I'm reading is: (It has the same effect whether I leave it with Windows linebreaks or convert them to unix).
Code:
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Aug 16, 2010
I have written a regular expression (tested in regexpal and regextester alpha something) with which I want to replace something like code...
but it only matches functions which occupy one line only, despite my tests showing multiple line matching in javascript testers online and using the m and s flags (which should make it multi line no?)
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Apr 25, 2011
I am trying to construct a quick regex that will search for six lines of text without a clear line break between them. It only needs to search, not replace, as I will be using in gEdit (with regex plugin) anyway.
It's for editing subtitle files. The video player I will be using them on can only cope with 3-line subtitles, so I just need to edit any in the srt file that contain four or more. There won't be many so I can do it manually. For example:
26
00:01:47,357 --> 00:01:49,359
a motivated business
professional with
clearly defined goals.
[Code].....
but .* seems to mean "any character, or none", so that doesn't work. My experience of regular expressions is limited, but I do know they are very powerful when used correctly!
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Feb 2, 2011
What I am doing is reading the text from a text document and storing all of the text inside of a ArrayList. I then set one of the values of the Arraylist as a string. I want to use regular expressions find out what the first two characters of the String are. if first two characters = "//" then function(); I only care about the first two characters though. If you need any more information, just ask.
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Apr 11, 2011
I need help as I am not proficient with Linux C++ Programming. There are two parts which I need to do in the coding provided below.
1. Produce the program so it can output the word "Hey there!" and wait two minute and print the word "See you later!".
2. Produce the program that will output the text "Cool" every 20 seconds by setting a periodic task.
Quote:
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
int init_module(void)
{
printk("Hey there!
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Oct 4, 2010
Its my first post in here so please be patient I am trying to use regex in perl script to detect allowed words from the file and then print output to the screen.
As an example : I have text file with orders and returns :
Item2-SKU-2-11.08.2010-online
Item3-SKU-3-11.09.2010-return
Item4-SKU-4-11.09.2010-store
My question: is it possible to make sure that i am ony outputing to the screen orders based on few conditions like Item,order form e.g. online.And is it possible to have multiple matches (Item2 only diplay if ordered online etc)
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Feb 12, 2011
im trying to build a simple program for my C programming class, this is the source code
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int length, width, length, height, area, perimeter;
perimeter = width + length + height;
area = width * length + heigth;
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i dont see any error (you might)but every time i run it it runs but after it asks me to input for the width i do it but it doesn't take me to the length, it just stays blank until i input another value in the same place for the width, it asks me for 4 inputs in total i don;t know why, and after i run it different times it gives me different values for the perimeter and are. how can I fix this?
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