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17

Capture comma separated numbers

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Capture comma separated numbers, no matter if there are spaces before or after the commas.
Submitted by Fernando Nunes - 9 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
18

Email validation

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by tutsplus.com - 10 years ago
18

Date Regex(DD/MM/yyyy)

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by alcaamado - 9 years ago
19

Email (RFC2822)

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ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Email address compliant with RFC2822
Submitted by Jago - 9 years ago
19

Get path from any text

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PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
Get path (windows style) from any type of text (error message, e-mail corps ...), quoted or not. THIS IS THE SINGLE LINE VERSION !_ If you want understand how it work or edit it, go https://regex101.com/r/7o2fyy Relative path are not supported...
Submitted by nitrateag - 2 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
20

Between tags content

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Agustín Bouillet - 9 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
23

userName

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
1-15 alphanumeric login name
Submitted by gsanchezc - 10 years ago
24

best youtube id match ( iframe embed replace ready )

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
MATCH ANY YOUTUBE ID author : mi-ca v1.0 – 2017.03.08 This Regex match any youtube url and grab the ID. Embed ready √ --...
Submitted by mi-ca.ch - 6 years ago
25

Quote Macthing with escape

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Matches text within quotes (", ') and escapes the charecters.
Submitted by Vihan Bhargava - 10 years ago
25

grab valid css rules and properties

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by Pavel Dominguez - 10 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
27

Parsing browser User Agents

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
From a (fairly large) list of User Agent strings, extract the OS, Browser, and Device Type.
Submitted by OnlineCop - 10 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
29

Wrap long string to spec length

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by fullpipe - 11 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
30

Cron schedule

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate cron lines (even the ones commented out)
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
31

Email address (most used)

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Email address, most used cases
Submitted by Jago - 9 years ago
31

ninite

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by peek - 9 years ago
35

http://

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by Mitus M. - 11 years ago
1...899900901902

Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

/
^(((https|http):\/\/)?([a-z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.)+[a-z0-9:()]{1,20}+(\/[a-z0-9_():@.]+)*(\/)?((\?|#).*)?|(website_not_available))
/
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Description

Test for URL regex

Submitted by anonymous - 4 months ago (Last modified 4 months ago)