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regex101.com permalink id grabber

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Grabs the ID for the regex101.com permalink code. If a revision number is provided, grab that as well.
Submitted by chris mccoy - 11 years ago (Last modified 8 months ago)
238

Matching email addresses per RFC5322

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
The BNF rules from RFC 5322 transformed to PCRE by Nikita Popov and described in the post http://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html.
Submitted by Michael Musson - 11 years ago
40

URL regexp

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
A quite neat regular expression for URLs, e-mails..., I found on Matthew O'Riordan's blog.
Submitted by Matthew O'Riordan - 12 years ago
18

Date: DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate and capture dateTime parts, includes validation for leap years, range 1000-2999. Fixed bug
Submitted by Ka. - 12 years ago
35

http://

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Mitus M. - 11 years ago
52

Disorted Email Addresses

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches distorted email addresses and converts them back to real ones.
Submitted by dislick - 12 years ago
18

Email validation

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by tutsplus.com - 10 years ago
16

Alphanumeric Regex

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Deepan - 9 years ago
4

Phone number

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Mark Landry - 9 years ago
26

match valid JSON

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches any valid JSON object, matches recursively. Passes all JSON test cases I found.
Submitted by Mateon1 - 10 years ago
23

userName

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
1-15 alphanumeric login name
Submitted by gsanchezc - 10 years ago
29

CSV line parsing

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Captures all fields from a CSV file's line. Can be customized with user-defined field separator and protecting character.
Submitted by Various - 10 years ago
31

ninite

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by peek - 9 years ago
13

URL Validator

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates - URLs with schemes - http, https and ftp Relative URL starting with / and ../
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
29

Wrap long string to spec length

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by fullpipe - 11 years ago
9

Youtube ID match

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regex will match any Youtube video ID thrown at it and return one capturing group containing the ID.
Submitted by Jacob Overgaard - 11 years ago
3

Match quoted strings, ignoring escaped quotes

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches single or double quoted strings, and ignores backslash-escaped quotes within the string.
Submitted by Maddingue - 11 years ago
22

UK Postcode Checker

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Checks for valid UK/British postcodes. There was another on here that had for some reason been upvoted, but it was actually incorrect as it worked on none of my valid own postcodes! Namely that it assumed two letters and a number (BS3) when you can have variations (M20). Allows for an optional spac...
Submitted by MaffooBristol - 10 years ago
13

regex101.com id grabber

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
grabs the ID for the regex101.com permalink to code
Submitted by chris mccoy - 10 years ago
11

Date(Including Leap Year) YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates DateTime of format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss including Leap Year
Submitted by Madhan - 11 years ago
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Regular Expression
Python

r"
src=\"(\S+)?\".+\s.+\s.+href=(\S+).+ember-view\">\s+(\S+)?(?:\s(\S+))\s(\S+)\s+.+\s+.+\s.+\s\S+\s.+\s.+clamp__line.+?(?=>)\W(\s+.+(?=<!)|.+(?=<\/span>))
"
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Submitted by anonymous - 6 years ago