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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
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Regular Expression
PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)

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^(?(?!.*\-1\t)(([^\t]+)\t(\d{4,5})\t([^\t]+)\t([^\t]+)$)|([^\t]+))
/
gm
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Description

I'm trying to arrange and manipulate Notepad++ icons and make some scripts, so, after generating the list from the MenuIcons plugin, I used this RegEx to make a list with the container (folder/subfolder, the ones that have a -1 command ID) and indent all the items it contains (I'm using Python for my scripts, so it's more helpful for me). From this:

&File	-1	==>	C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\MenuIcons\EN-US\File.ico
    &New	41001	==>	C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\MenuIcons\EN-US\New.ico
    &Open...	41002	==>	C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\MenuIcons\EN-US\Open.ico

You get this:

&File
    41001 &New
    41002 &Open...

I just loved how this RegEx worked 98% exactly as I wanted (didn't find a way to make a difference with nested folders/menus... but as they have no command ID, it's just a non functional feature (and that was my SW Tester side speaking))

Hope it helps someone out there, feel free to adopt it to your needs (if you have many plugins like me, this will show only the name of it's container, as all of them have commands that repeat their ID)

Submitted by Me, myself and I (with the help from the Menu Icons plugin) - 3 years ago