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Strip multi-line (star) comments from JavaScript, while leaving any CDATA sections intact.

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
This regular expression removes multi-line (star) comments from JavaScript, while leaving any CDATA sections intact. Use the global (g) modifier to match them all (if you plan to use PHP's preg_replace, the g modifier is not necessary), and use the (s) modifier to make dots match newlines (this will...
Submitted by Dane MacMillan - 12 years ago
2

MIME type verification

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#section-5.1
Submitted by Erin Millard - 12 years ago
1

PHP ReflectionParameter:__toString() parser

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
See http://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionparameter.tostring.php
Submitted by Erin Millard - 12 years ago
13

PHP variable name

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Valid PHP variable name as defined in the manual at http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.basics.php
Submitted by Erin Millard - 12 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
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
1...899900901

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

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^ # Uncomment to allow prefix continuation (second letter of a dangling match) # ([abcdefghiklmnoprstuvy\ ])? ( \ |(?: # Single-letter elements [BCFHIKNOPSUVWY] ) |(?: # Two-letter elements. (?:A[cglmrstu])|(?:B[aehikr])|(?:C[adeflmnorsu])|(?:D[bsy]) | (?:E[rsu])|(?:F[elmr])|(?:G[ade])|(?:H[efgos])|(?:I[nr]) | (?:K[r])|(?:L[airuv])|(?:M[cdgnot])|(?:N[abdehiop]) | (?:O[gs])|(?:P[abdmortu])|(?:R[abefghnu])|(?:S[bcegimnr]) | (?:T[abcehilms])|(?:X[e])|(?:Yb)|(?:Z[nr]) ) |(?: # Smushed trigrams. No need to go past trigrams because two twos make four (?:A(?:ga|gd|ge|la|lr|md|mg|mt|ra|re|rg|ta|te|tl|tm)) |(?:E(?:ra|re|rg)) |(?:G(?:ag|al|am|ar|at|er)) |(?:L(?:ag|al|am|ar|at|ra|re|rg)) |(?:M(?:ga|gd|ge|ta|te|tl|tm)) |(?:R(?:ag|al|am|ar|at|er|ga|gd|ge)) |(?:T(?:ag|al|am|ar|at|er|la|lr|md|mg|mt)) |(?:X(?:er)) |(?:Z(?:ra|re|rg)) ) # repeated any number of times )+ # Uncomment to allow last letter if it's a potential first letter of the next word # ([ADEGLMRTXZ]\ *)? $
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Description

This will match only words that include chemical elements: H + Og + W + Ar + Ts but not Eton. It allows internal overlap: LaG = La + Ag, and allows the first letter or last letter to be the end/start of a symbol to allow chaining. You can easily remove the various pieces, though. A single-line (non-"extended") regex is at the bottom of the test string

Submitted by mrflip - 17 days ago (Last modified 17 days ago)