I have a simple json file that isn't well formatted it looks like:
{ ID: '092558667',
NAME: 'Store Made',
PARENT_CATEGORY_ID: '692558669',
INCLUDED_IN_NET_SALES: '1' }
All I need to do is wrap the field names in double quotes. In vim the closest I have gotten is to wrap the field name and the colon in quotes - obviously I need to figure out how to get the string without the colon wrapped. Here's what I am trying:
:%s/[A-Z_]*:/"&"
If I leave the colon out of the query the whole file ends up being selected.
You can use capture groups:
%s/\([A-Z_]*\):/"\1":/
To handle already quoted keys properly:
%s/"\?\([A-Z_]*\)"\?:/"\1":/
Ok, with the information above I ended up with this:
:%s/[ \t]\([A-Za-z_].*\):/"\1":/
it supports upper- and lowercase chars
it skips already quoted fields
Since this can be considered a completion, I mapped it to a vim completion shortcut ctrl-x ctrl-j in .vimrc (they all start with ctrl-x ) :
:noremap <C-x><C-j> :%s/[ \t]\([A-Za-z_].*\):/"\1":/<CR>
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I'm using an application called Firemon which uses regex to pull text out of various fields. I'm unsure what specific version of regex it uses, I can't find a reference to this in the documentation.
My raw text will always be in the following format:
CM: 12345
APP: App Name
BZU: Dept Name
REQ: First Last
JST: Text text text text.
CM will always be an integer, JST will be sentence that may span multiple lines, and the other fields will be strings that consist of 1-2 words - and there's always a return after each section.
The application, Firemon, has me create a regex entry for each field. Something simple that looks for each prefix and then a return should work, because I return after each value. I've tried several variations, such as "BZU:\s*(.*)", but can't seem to find something that works.
EDIT: To be clear I'm trying to get the value after each prefix. Firemon has a section for each field. "APP" for example is a field. I need a regex example to find "APP:" and return the text after it. So something as simple as regex that identifies "APP:", and grabs everything after the : and before the return would probably work.
You can use (?=\w+ )(.*)
Positive lookahead will remove prefix and space character from match groups and you will in each match get text after space.
I am a little late to the game, but maybe this is still an issue.
In the more recent versions of FireMon, sample regexes are provided. For instance:
jst:\s*([^;]?)\s;
will match on:
jst:anything in here;
and result in
anything in here
There is a txt file containing multiple lines with - Browser("something").page("something_else").webEdit("some").
I need to retrieve the names of the browser, page and fields (names surrounded by double quotes ) and replace the line with "something_somethingelse_some" (concatinating the names of the browser, page n filed respectively), please help.
the names can be anything so we should go with regex. Note we have to convert everything comes in the above format within the text file till the EOF..
You may try this:
^Browser\("(.*?)"\).page\("(.*?)"\).webEdit\("(.*?)"\).*$
and replace by:
$1_$2_$3
Regex Demo
I have this file where I only want to extract the email address and first name from our client list.
So a sample from the file:
a#abc.com,www.abc.com,2011-11-15 00:00:00,8.8.8.8,John,Doe,209 Park Rd,See,FL,33870,,,
b#abc.com,cde.com,2011-11-07 00:00:00,4.4.4.4,Erickson,Crast,136 Kua St # 1367,Pearl,HI,96782,,8084568190,
I would like to get back
a#abc.com,John
b#abc.com,Erickson
So basically email address and First Name
I know I can do this in powershell but maybe a find and replace in ultraedit will be faster
Note: you will notice some fields are not provided so it will show ",," meaning those fields were left empty when the user signed up but the amount of comma in each line is the same, 12 being the count.
So basically there are fields separated by ",". Without looking at the correct content (i.e. email/timestamp etc. will need to have a certain format which could also be checked) let's just try to extract the values of the first and fourth field.
so I'd suggest
a Replace-Operation where you search for
^([^,]*),[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,([^,]*),.*$
and replace it with
\1 # \2
Options: "Regular Expressions: Unix".
(Just inserted the # to have a separator, although the first whitespace would be sufficient. But you'll get the idea, I assume...)
Result:
a#abc.com # John
b#abc.com # Erickson
I have a column "verbatim" where each entry contains multiple lines. Here's an example:
Dummy field1:Text
Tell Us More:Text to capture
Dummy field2:Text
I'd like to capture only Text to capture text in the second line Tell Us More: and put that value into the column verbatim_scrubbed. In the example above, Text to capture would be the entry in verbatim_scrubbed.
I'm not that great with postgres and regexp, so I was hoping somebody could help me out here. Was thinking of something similar to the following:
update TABLE
set verbatim_trimmed = array_to_string(regexp_matches(verbatim,'tell us more:(.*)','gi'));
This doesn't work, but I have a feeling something similar may work.
Perhaps there is a direct way to capture the: Text to capture without the cariage return \r and the new line \n charracters (without using the regexp_replace).
Here is what you can do:
select regexp_replace(array_to_string(regexp_matches(verbatim, '^Tell Us More:(.*)$','n'),'',''), E'[\\r\\n]', '' ) from my_table;
I am trying to filter out spam before being posted using a few routines and external services (akismet) but they all seem to fail when pushing in a comma delimited word or a word formed with empty tags. Eg
b[u][/u]u[u][/u]y[i][/i]m[b][/b] e <-> buyme
b,u,y,m,e <-> buyme
Does anyone know of a good ColdFusion regex to strip out this sort of behavior before I can post it to aksimet for processing?
Firstly: Have you checked whether is Akismet not already doing this?
I would very much suspect it already does all this processing (and more), so you don't actually need to.
Anyway, assuming this is bbcode, and thus the relevant tags will be for bold/italic/underline, you can replace them with:
TextForAkismet = rereplace( TextForAkismet , '\[([biu])\]\[/\1\]' , '' , 'all' )
If there are other empty tags you want to remove, simply update the captured group (the bit in parentheses) as appropriate. To also cater for potentially attributes (but still an empty tag), a quick and dirty way is to use [^\]]* after the tag name (outside the captured group).
'\[([biu]|img|url)[^\]]*\]\[/\1\]'
Depending on the dialect of bbcode you're working with, you may need to handle quoted brackets which would need a more complex expression.
To remove commas that appear between letters, use:
TextForAkismet = rereplace( TextForAkismet , '\b,\b' , '' , 'all' )
(Where \b matches any position between alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric.)