I can't figure out a regex that will grab every word besides MD5 hashes. - I'm using [a-zA-Z0-9]+ to match every word. How do I augment that so that it ignores something I'm thinking is like [a-fA-F0-9]{32} which would match the MD5 hashes. My question regards Regex.
8e85d8b3be426bc8d370facdb0ad3ad0
string
stringString
63994b32affec18c2a428cdfcb0e2823
stringSTRINGSTING333
34563994b32dddddddaffec18c2a
stringSTRINGSTINGsrting
Thanks for any help. :)
This kind of thing is usually done with a negative lookahead:
/\b(?![0-9a-f]{32}\b)[A-Za-z0-9]+\b/
At the beginning of each word, (?![0-9a-fA-F]{32}\b) tries to match exactly 32 hexadecimal digits followed by a word boundary. If it succeeds, the regex fails.
The following works fine for me:
/^[a-f0-9]{8}(-)[a-f0-9]{4}(-)[a-f0-9]{4}(-)[a-f0-9]{4}(-)[a-f0-9]{12}$/i
as already said, just grab all words which do not match to be MD5 hashes.
(first, you have to split the string)
var s = "8e85d8b3be426bc8d370facdb0ad3ad0\nstring\nstringString\n63994b32affec18c2a428cdfcb0e2823\nstringSTRINGSTING333\n34563994b32dddddddaffec18c2a\nstringSTRINGSTINGsrting";
words = [];
words_all = s.split(/\s+/);
for (i in words_all) {
word = words_all[i];
if (! word.match(/^[a-fA-F0-9]{32}$/)) { words.push(word) }
}
// words = ["string", "stringString", "stringSTRINGSTING333", "34563994b32dddddddaffec18c2a", "stringSTRINGSTINGsrting"]
(assuming, according to your original code, you want to use javascript)
Related
EDIT: This question pertains to Oracle implementation of regex (POSIX ERE) which does not support 'lookaheads'
I need to separate a string of characters with a comma, however, the pattern is not consistent and I am not sure if this can be accomplished with Regex.
Corpus: 1710ABCD.131711ABCD.431711ABCD.41711ABCD.4041711ABCD.25
The pattern is basically 4 digits, followed by 4 characters, followed by a dot, followed by 1,2, or 3 digits! To make the string above clear, this is how it looks like separated by a space 1710ABCD.13 1711ABCD.43 1711ABCD.4 1711ABCD.404 1711ABCD.25
So the output of a replace operation should look like this:
1710ABCD.13,1711ABCD.43,1711ABCD.4,1711ABCD.404,1711ABCD.25
I was able to match the pattern using this regex:
(\d{4}\w{4}\.\d{1,3})
It does insert a comma but after the third digit beyond the dot (wrong, should have been after the second digit), but I cannot get it to do it in the right position and globally.
Here is a link to a fiddle
https://regex101.com/r/qQ2dE4/329
All you need is a lookahead at the end of the regular expression, so that the greedy \d{1,3} backtracks until it's followed by 4 digits (indicating the start of the next substring):
(\d{4}\w{4}\.\d{1,3})(?=\d{4})
^^^^^^^^^
https://regex101.com/r/qQ2dE4/330
To expand on #CertainPerformance's answer, if you want to be able to match the last token, you can use an alternative match of $:
(\d{4}\w{4}\.\d{1,3})(?=\d{4}|$)
Demo: https://regex101.com/r/qQ2dE4/331
EDIT: Since you now mentioned in the comment that you're using Oracle's implementation, you can simply do:
regexp_replace(corpus, '(\d{1,3})(\d{4})', '\1,\2')
to get your desired output:
1710ABCD.13,1711ABCD.43,1711ABCD.4,1711ABCD.404,1711ABCD.25
Demo: https://regex101.com/r/qQ2dE4/333
In order to continue finding matches after the first one you must use the global flag /g. The pattern is very tricky but it's feasible if you reverse the string.
Demo
var str = `1710ABCD.131711ABCD.431711ABCD.41711ABCD.4041711ABCD.25`;
// Reverse String
var rts = str.split("").reverse().join("");
// Do a reverse version of RegEx
/*In order to continue searching after the first match,
use the `g`lobal flag*/
var rgx = /(\d{1,3}\.\w{4}\d{4})/g;
// Replace on reversed String with a reversed substitution
var res = rts.replace(rgx, ` ,$1`);
// Revert the result back to normal direction
var ser = res.split("").reverse().join("");
console.log(ser);
I want to validate a text that need have more than 3 [aA-zZ] chars, not need continous.
/^(?![_\-\s0-9])(?!.*?[_\-\s]$)(?=.*[aA-zZ]{3,})[_\-\sa-zA-Z0-9]+$/.test("aaa123") => return true;
/^(?![_\-\s0-9])(?!.*?[_\-\s]$)(?=.*[aA-zZ]{3,})[_\-\sa-zA-Z0-9]+$/.test("a1b2c3") => return false;
Can anybody help me?
How about replacing and counting?
var hasFourPlusChars = function(str) {
return str.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]+/g, '').length > 3;
};
console.log(hasFourPlusChars('testing1234'));
console.log(hasFourPlusChars('a1b2c3d4e5'));
You need to group .* and [a-zA-Z] in order to allow optional arbitrary characters between English letters:
^(?![_\-\s0-9])(?!.*?[_\-\s]$)(?=(?:.*[a-zA-Z]){3,})[_\-\sa-zA-Z0-9]+$
^^^ ^
Add this
Demo:
var re = /^(?![_\-\s0-9])(?!.*?[_\-\s]$)(?=(?:.*[aA-zZ]){3,})[_\-\sa-zA-Z0-9]+$/;
console.log(re.test("aaa123"));
console.log(re.test("a1b2c3"));
By the way, [aA-zZ] is not a correct range definition. Use [a-zA-Z] instead. See here for more details.
Correction of the regex
Your repeat condition should include the ".*". I did not check if your regex is correct for what you want to achieve, but this correction works for the following strings:
$testStrings=["aaa123","a1b2c3","a1b23d"];
foreach($testStrings as $s)
var_dump(preg_match('/^(?![_\-\s0-9])(?!.*?[_\-\s]$)(?=.*[a-zA-Z]){3,}[_\-\sa-zA-Z0-9]+$/', $s));
Other implementations
As the language seems to be JavaScript, here is an optimised implementation for what you want to achieve:
"a24be4Z".match(/[a-zA-Z]/g).length>=3
We get the list of all matches and check if there are at least 3.
That is not the "fastest" way as the result needs to be created.
)
/(?:.*?[a-zA-Z]){3}/.test("a24be4Z")
is faster. ".*?" avoids that the "test" method matches all characters up to the end of the string before testing other combinations.
As expected, the first suggestion (counting the number of matches) is the slowest.
Check https://jsperf.com/check-if-there-are-3-ascii-characters .
I have a long string in the format:
' Random Key : Random Value\n Random Long Key : Random Long Value\n...'
and so on.
I am trying to change it to
Random Value:Random Key, Random Long Value:Random Long Key,...
by using regex. I can match a single word by
\w+
but in order to match more than one word i am doing
\w+(\s\w+)*
but that's not giving me the wanted result.
You might use this piece of code to find the key-value pairs:
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
public class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
var regex = new Regex(#"\s*(?<key>(\w+\s?\w+)*)\s*:\s*(?<val>(\w+\s?\w+))\s*");
var input = #" Key : Value\n Long Key : Long Value\n...";
Console.WriteLine(regex.Replace(input, "${key}:${val}").Replace("\\n", ", "));
}
}
The trick is to match "any number of (at least one word character, an optional space, and at least another word character)", which finds keys for us with spaces. The shortest no-space key is two characters though.
I admit that the escaped line breaks aren't replaced by a regex, but this way both expression and code are fairly simple.
If your \n really is part of the string you can match and replace it like this:
/(?:\s*([^\\]+?)\s*:\s*([^\\]+?)\s*)+\\n/g
and substitute it with
$1:$2,
See Demo.
If you have it line-by-line then its easier because you can use multiline matching:
/^\s*(.+?)\s*:\s*(.+?)\s*$/mg
and also substitute it with
$1:$2,
See Demo.
None of the other answers worked fully for me, as they kept matching the space after the final word. the regex that worked as intended is
(\w+(?:\s\w+)*)
I want to split a text into it's single words using regular expressions. The obvious solution would be to use the regex \\b unfortunately this one does split words also on the hyphen.
So I am searching an expression doing exactly the same as the \\b but does not split on hyphens.
Thanks for your help.
Example:
String s = "This is my text! It uses some odd words like user-generated and need therefore a special regex.";
String [] b = s.split("\\b+");
for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++){
System.out.println(b[i]);
}
Output:
This
is
my
text
!
It
uses
some
odd
words
like
user
-
generated
and
need
therefore
a
special
regex
.
Expected output:
...
like
user-generated
and
....
#Matmarbon solution is already quite close, but not 100% fitting it gives me
...
like
user-
generated
and
....
This should do the trick, even if lookaheads are not available:
[^\w\-]+
Also not you but somebody who needs this for another purpose (i.e. inserting something) this is more of an equivalent to the \b-solutions:
([^\w\-]|$|^)+
because:
There are three different positions that qualify as word boundaries:
Before the first character in the string, if the first character is a word character.
After the last character in the string, if the last character is a word character.
Between two characters in the string, where one is a word character and the other is not a word character.
--- http://www.regular-expressions.info/wordboundaries.html
You can use this:
(?<!-)\\b(?!-)
I try to look for this answer for a while but no luck (sorry if I could describe it well). I am still newbie with regex. I am trying to match a string with only number and a certain delimiter. For example: the patter would be 8/16/32/64/.... the number will be split by '/' with arbitrary amount of number, I could find a way to match them.
My attempt is \d+/\d+? but couldn't get it to work.
You could remove the '/' delimiter and then test for the existence of a number
Here is some C# as an example:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string text = "8/16/32/64/";
Console.WriteLine(text);
TestForNum(text);
text = "8/16/32/64/b";
Console.WriteLine(text);
TestForNum(text);
Console.ReadKey();
}
private static void TestForNum(string text)
{
string tmp = Regex.Replace(text, #"/", "");
Match m = Regex.Match(tmp, #"^\d+$");
if(m.Success)
{
Console.WriteLine("\t" + m.Groups[0]);
}
else Console.WriteLine("\tno match");
}
A naive approach would be
[\d/]+
However, this does match //// as well as just 12345. To match only "proper" strings:
\d+(/\d+)+
Reads digits followed by delimiter+digits repeated at least once. If trailing/leading delimiters are allowed, then
/?(\d+/)+\d*
If you're using a flavor that uses slashes to quote the regex (like javascript), you'll need to escape them:
/\d+(\/\d+)+/
You can do:
(\d+)(\D|$)
See this work That will split a list of digits delimited by any non digit, so 1?2!3.4 would match
If you want a specific delimiter, such as /:
(\d+)(?:/|$)
As simple as possible:
(\d+\/?)+
Every digit followed by [a] slash, as many as possible. You may use g flag for all matches.