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11

youtube url match

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
extract video id, index, play list id from youtube url
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
19

Email (RFC2822)

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

Fiddler raw body to PHP array

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by garsax - 9 years ago
14

RFC3339 DateTime

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates a RFC3339 DateTime format. Does not validates the Data
Submitted by anonymous - 9 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)
11

Conventional Commits validation

Python
This regex prevents the writing of non-standard conventional commits. I'm available on my github
Submitted by Krisque - 3 years ago (Last modified 3 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)
35

Strict Password Validator

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This regex matches only when all the following are true: password must contain 1 number (0-9) password must contain 1 uppercase letters password must contain 1 lowercase letters password must contain 1 non-alpha numeric number...
Submitted by qho - 7 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
13

CSS Color Matcher

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Pattern matching and extracting color code formats using RegEx. https://github.com/Kyza/color-regex/
Submitted by Kyza - a year 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
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
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Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

/
<link *.*(?: *href="([^"]*(\.png|\.ico))"| *type="(?:image\/png|image\/vnd\.microsoft\.icon|image\/x-icon)"| *rel="(?:icon|shortcut icon|apple-touch-icon)").*>
/
gim
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Description

I needed a generic way to pull the shortcut icon for sites. This expression parses the html for the icon. If the icon was not found, my code checks for the "favicon.ico" in the root of the site.

Submitted by groundh0g - 2 years ago