I am creating a google form and trying to create a regex on of the fields because I need them to enter a profile link from a specific website. I'm a beginner with regex and this is what I have come up with:
/^(http:\/\/)?(steamcommunity\.com\/id\/)*\/?$/
But when I go to enter a test link such as: http://steamcommunity.com/id/bagzli it fails it. I don't understand what is wrong about it.
You missed a dot (meaning any character) after the (/id\). Try this:
/^(http:\/\/)?(steamcommunity\.com\/id\/).*\/?$/
^-- added
The ultimate goal of what I was trying to accomplish is to ensure that certain text was entered in the box. I thought I had to use Regex to accomplish that, but google forms also has "Text Contains" feature which I made use of to solve my problem. The regex by Zoff Dino did not work, I am not sure why as it seems completely correct.
I will mark this as resolved as I managed to get my answer, even if it was not via regex.
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I've searched all the other Regex on Google Analytics questions but I can't use the answers as this is pretty specific to my problem.
I want to set a destination URL goal but use Regex to flag it as a goal IF string includes /general/
I basically want to track everyone in GA who goes to a Vehicle Detail Page but /general/ brings them to a Search Results Page.
so in other words
/used-cars/general is not correct
/used-cars/citreon/ is correct
/used-cars/TOYOTA/ is correct
Basically, any other car maker is correct after /used-cars/ regardless if it is capitalized or not.
Thanks in advance, everyone.
Your regex is on the right path, but you should escape any special characters. Try the below instead:
/used\-cars/(citreon|TOYOTA|RENAULT|VOLKSWAGEN|VAUXHALL|HONDA|BMW|NISSAN|PEUGEOT|DS|FORD|HYUNDAI|INFINITI|MERCEDES\-BENZ|MITSUBISHI)/
I am coding custom CSS for Facebook using Stylish.
Everything goes well except that I need to have some custom values under the condition of URL-suffix. The only thing that comes close is URL-prefix which is the exact opposite.
So I was wondering if I could do something like:
Detect if URL is like either:
www.facebook.com/*/posts or just */post
where * could be any value.
Is it possible to do this through RegEx?
I googled it but I couldn't make anything out of it.
I want to apply some CSS code only when viewing some individual Facebook posts, and the URLbar shows:
www.facebook.com/User/Posts/PostID.php
Therefore, I would only like to detect if Post or post/postID.php exists and apply the style.
The below regex would match the links which contain the string /posts,
(?=.*?\/posts).*
DEMO
I've a problem, I have a link on each page of my website linking to a different contact form which does'nt exist. for example, on one page it links to contact_123.html, another contact_122.html, another contact_124.html etc... I want to do a find and replace on this to change any contact_"any 3 numbers".html to just contact.html.
Does anyone know the regex to do this. Cheers!
Regex to search for: contact_\d{3}\.html
How to do actual search&replace depends what tool/environment you're using
So I'm trying to download all my old reddit posts using a combination of AutoPagerize and DownThemAll.
Here are two sample URLs I want to distinguish between:
http://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/kqjr1/what_is_the_name_of_this_weird_chinese_medicine/c2med97
http://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/kqjr1/what_is_the_name_of_this_weird_chinese_medicine/c2meana?context=3
The regexp I'm trying to use is this: (\b)http://www.reddit.com/([^?\s]*)?
I want all my reddit posts downloaded, but I don't want any redundancy, so I want to match all of my reddit posts except for anything with a question mark (after which there's a "context=3" character).
I've used RegEx Buddy to show that the regexp fits the first URL but not the second one. However, DownThemAll does not recognize this. Is DownThemAll's ability to parse regexp limited, or am I doing something wrong?
For now, I've just decided to download them all, but to use a renaming mask of *subdirs*.*text*.*html* so that I can later mass remove anything containing the word "context" in its filename.
Reddit does have an API, you might want to take a look at that instead, might be easier.
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
EDIT: Looks like http://www.reddit.com/user/USERNAME/.json might be what you want
I'm trying to write some Perl to convert some HTML-based text over to MediaWiki format and hit the following problem: I want to search and replace within a delimited subsection of some text and wondered if anyone knew of a neat way to do it. My input stream is something like:
Please mail support. if you want some help.
and I want to change Please help and Please can some one help me out here to Please%20help and Please%20can%20some%20one%20help%20me%20out%20here respectively, without changing any of the other spaces on the line.
Naturally, I also need to be able to cope with more than one such link on a line so splicing isn't such a good option.
I've taken a good look round Perl tutorial sites (it's not my first language) but didn't come across anything like this as an example. Can anyone advise an elegant way of doing this?
Your task has two parts. Find and replace the mailto URIs - use a HTML parsing module for that. This topic is covered thoroughly on Stack Overflow.
The other part is to canonicalise the URI. The module URI is suitable for this purpose.
use URI::mailto;
my #hrefs = ('mailto:help#myco.com&Subject=Please help&Body=Please can some one help me out here');
print URI::mailto->new($_)->as_string for #hrefs;
__END__
mailto:help#myco.com&Subject=Please%20help&Body=Please%20can%20some%20one%20help%20me%20out%20here
Why dont you just search for the "Body=" tag until the quotes and replace every space with %20.
I would not even use regular expresions for that since I dont find them useful for anything except mass changes where everything on the line is changes.
A simple loop might be the best solution.