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Cheat Sheet

Postby Smite » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:46 pm

Last edited by Smite on Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:05 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Postby dexter » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:57 pm

Nice. I just stickyfied you.
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Postby georger » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:23 am

Did not see this on the cheat sheet, but is this right for filtering (out) numbers only?

^[0-9]+$

And this would be to filter out any jpg prefixed with numbers:


^[0-9]+$\.jpg

Yes?
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Postby dexter » Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:47 am

The ^ for "not" doesn't work. You can put

[0-9]+\.jpg

in the reject field, that will work.
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Postby bobkoure » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:01 pm

It's moved (slightly) to
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Postby mcwebtree » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:33 pm

I was about to say, but surely the addresses are both exactly the same...

But then I noticed that Smite had edited his entry! D'oh.
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Postby Smite » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:02 pm

Yeah. Thanks for the heads up.
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Postby bobkoure » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:32 pm

While we're at it, there's a complete regex tutorial at Links not allowed for unregistered users.
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RegEx coach

Postby RevRagnarok » Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:29 pm

I have used RegEx Coach when I am doing Perl development, I like the way it will walk you thru stuff.
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Re: Cheat Sheet

Postby mbourgon » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:17 pm

A waaaay late entry to the party.
You can also use \d instead of [0-9]. Saves a couple characters.
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Re: Cheat Sheet

Postby Quade » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:38 pm

Never too late for RE's.
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Re: Cheat Sheet

Postby rh » Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:18 pm

Seems like a good place to share this. I don't use Regex enough to become very proficient, let alone master it. Recently I came across the free (with registration) tool below and I've used it a few times to test RE's that I use with NB. Took a tiny bit of time getting the hang of it and I hardly use its full potential, but It's real handy.

http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm
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Re: Cheat Sheet

Postby dexter » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:27 pm

Nice, good find.
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