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Community Patterns

4

find uncommented coffeescript console.logs

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by valiafetisov - 9 years ago
4

Version Matcher

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Matches version strings.
Submitted by anmols - 9 years ago
4

extract domain with port

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by yooresh - 9 years ago
4

Function Declaration / Expression

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
matches both function declarations and expressions in javascript. ex. function name () {...} || function () {}
Submitted by Ja Superior - 9 years ago
4

DNS hostname well-formedness validation

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates that a DNS hostname is well-formed only. You will still need to check that the overall length of the hostname, including the implied trailing "." (if not present), does not exceed 255 bytes.
Submitted by Jeff Walter - 9 years ago
4

MasterCard validate 2017

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Match a MasterCard with new range for 2017: 51-55 and 2221-2720 @incarnated
Submitted by John C - 9 years ago
4

UK Postcode

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by msyed - 9 years ago
4

Validate Argentinian postal code

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates CPA (Código Postal Argentino, spanish for Argentinian Postal Code).
Submitted by Agustín Bouillet - 9 years ago
4

Validates argentinian postal code

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates the two valid postal codes in Argentina
Submitted by Agustín Bouillet - 9 years ago
4

,(?=([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*(?![^\"]*\"))

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 8 years ago
4

remove blank keys in query string

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
looks for blank keys in the query string and remove it, in order to make shorter request.
Submitted by M.Nizam - 8 years ago
4

Credit Card Validation - MasterCard, Visa, Amex, Discover

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
MasterCard - ^5[1-5]\d+ Visa - ^4\d+ Amex - ^3[47]\d+ Discover - 6011|65|64...
Submitted by Eric Foster - 8 years ago
4

Campos Decimais (pt_br)

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Funciona para campos decimais para moeda nacional brasileira. Aceita números inteiros, separação por milhar e a separação decimal.
Submitted by Murilo C. Cumerlatto - 8 years ago
4

INI Parser

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Created for purpose of reading an INI file in C# applications. Supports comments and comment escape characters. I plan to add more escape characters (such as \=). s - Section scp - Section Comment Prefix sc - Section Comment...
Submitted by Raxdiam - 5 years ago
4

CloudFlare

PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
Cloud Flare
Submitted by anonymous - 3 years ago
4

Email

PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
email format control
Submitted by ahmetbarut - 3 years ago
4

C# Regex Extract/Match Nested HTML Elements/Tags

.NET 7.0 (C#)
With this C# regex, you can easily match/Parse Nested HTML tags. Example input: ...
Submitted by w4po - 3 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
12

Remove Special Ascii Characters from unicode String

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
By Using this string you can just remove ascii special characters from a unicode string characters like ♥♥♥♥ ▓▒ and other non unicode letters.
Submitted by Hummad Hassan - 10 years ago
12

Username with "_" "-"

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by Gianvy - 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
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Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

/
(^( +|)\[(?<name>[^#;\r\n]+)\])|(^( +|)(?<key>[^\[\]\r\n=#;]+)( |)=( |)(?<value>[^#;\\\r\n]*(?:\\.[^#;\\\r\n]*)*))|((#|;)(?<comm>.+)$)
/
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Description

Created for purpose of reading an INI file in C# applications. Supports comments and comment escape characters. I plan to add more escape characters (such as =).

s    - Section
scp  - Section Comment Prefix
sc   - Section Comment
k    - Key
v    - Value
kvcp - KeyValue Comment Prefix
kvc  - KeyValue Comment
cp   - Comment Prefix
c    - Comment

I am open to any suggestion that may improve upon this regex, and/or would allow me to learn more. <br />

Created by Raxdiam
Submitted by Raxdiam - 5 years ago