I'm trying to figure out a RegEx that would match the following:
.../string-with-no-spaces -> string-with-no-spaces
or
string-with-no-spaces:... -> string-with-no-spaces
or
.../string-with-no-spaces:... -> string-with-no-spaces
where ... can be anything in these example strings:
example.com:8080/string-with-no-spaces:latest
string-with-no-spaces:latest
example.com:8080/string-with-no-spaces
string-with-no-spaces
and a bonus would be
http://example.com:8080/string-with-no-spaces:latest
and all would match string-with-no-spaces.
Is it possible for a single RegEx to cover all those cases?
So far I've gotten as far as /\/.+(?=:)/ but that not only includes the slash, but only works for case 3. Any ideas?
Edit: Also I should mention that I'm using Node.js, so ideally the solution should pass all of these: https://jsfiddle.net/ys0znLef/
How about:
(?:.*/)?([^/:\s]+)(?::.*|$)
Consider the following solution using specific regex pattern and String.match function:
var re = /(?:[/]|^)([^/:.]+?)(?:[:][^/]|$)/,
// (?:[/]|^) - passive group, checks if the needed string is preceded by '/' or is at start of the text
// (?:[:][^/]|$) - passive group, checks if the needed string is followed by ':' or is at the end of the text
searchString = function(str){
var result = str.match(re);
return result[1];
};
console.log(searchString("example.com:8080/string-with-no-spaces"));
console.log(searchString("string-with-no-spaces:latest"));
console.log(searchString("string-with-no-spaces"));
console.log(searchString("http://example.com:8080/string-with-no-spaces:latest"));
The output for all the cases above will be string-with-no-spaces
Here's the expression I've got... just trying to tweak to use the slash but not include it.
Updated result works in JS
\S([a-zA-Z0-9.:/\-]+)\S
//works on regexr, regex storm, & regex101 - tested with a local html file to confirm JS matches strings
var re = /\S([a-zA-Z0-9.:/\-]+)\S/;
Related
I currently have the following string :
AAAAA/BBBBB/1565079415419-1564416946615-file-test.dsv
But I would like to split it to only get the following result (removing all tree directories + removing timestamp before the file):
1564416946615-file-test.dsv
I currently have the following code, but it's not working when the filename itselfs contains a '-' like in the example.
getFilename(str){
return(str.split('\\').pop().split('/').pop().split('-')[1]);
}
I don't want to use a loop for performances considerations (I may have lots of files to work with...) So it there an other solution (maybe regex ?)
We can try doing a regex replacement with the following pattern:
.*\/\d+-\b
Replacing the match with empty string should leave you with the result you want.
var filename = "AAAAA/BBBBB/1565079415419-1564416946615-file-test.dsv";
var output = filename.replace(/.*\/\d+-\b/, "");
console.log(output);
The pattern works by using .*/ to first consume everything up, and including, the final path separator. Then, \d+- consumes the timestamp as well as the dash that follows, leaving only the portion you want.
You may use this regex and get captured group #1:
/[^\/-]+-(.+)$/
RegEx Demo
RegEx Details:
[^\/-]+: Match any character that is not / and not -
-: Match literal -
(.+): Match 1+ of any characters
$: End
Code:
var filename = "AAAAA/BBBBB/1565079415419-1564416946615-file-test.dsv";
var m = filename.match(/[^\/-]+-(.+)$/);
console.log(m[1]);
//=> 1564416946615-file-test.dsv
I am passing a URL to a block of code in which I need to insert a new element into the regex. Pretty sure the regex is valid and the code seems right but no matter what I can't seem to execute the match for regex!
//** Incoming url's
//** url e.g. api/223344
//** api/11aa/page/2017
//** Need to match to the following
//** dir/api/12ab/page/1999
//** Hence the need to add dir at the front
var url = req.url;
//** pass in: /^\/api\/([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+)(?:\/page\/([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+))?$/
var re = myregex.toString();
//** Insert dir into regex: /^dir\/api\/([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+)(?:\/page\/([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+))?$/
var regVar = re.substr(0, 2) + 'dir' + re.substr(2);
var matchedData = url.match(regVar);
matchedData === null ? console.log('NO') : console.log('Yay');
I hope I am just missing the obvious but can anyone see why I can't match and always returns NO?
Thanks
Let's break down your regex
^\/api\/ this matches the beginning of a string, and it looks to match exactly the string "/api"
([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+) this is a capturing group: this one specifically will capture anything inside those brackets, with the + indicating to capture 1 or more, so for example, this section will match abAB25-_ %
(?:\/page\/([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+)) this groups multiple tokens together as well, but does not create a capturing group like above (the ?: makes it non-captuing). You are first matching a string exactly like "/page/" followed by a group exactly like mentioned in the paragraph above (that matches a-z, A-Z, 0-9, etc.
?$ is at the end, and the ? means capture 0 or more of the precending group, and the $ matches the end of the string
This regex will match this string, for example: /api/abAB25-_ %/page/abAB25-_ %
You may be able to take advantage of capturing groups, however, and use something like this instead to get similar results: ^\/api\/([a-zA-Z0-9-_~ %]+)\/page\/\1?$. Here, we are using \1 to reference that first capturing group and match exactly the same tokens it is matching. EDIT: actually, this probably won't work, since the text after /api/ and the text after /page/ will most likely be different, carrying on...
Afterwards, you are are adding "dir" to the beginning of your search, so you can now match someting like this: dir/api/abAB25-_ %/page/abAB25-_ %
You have also now converted the regex to a string, so like Crayon Violent pointed out in their comment, this will break your expected funtionality. You can fix this by using .source on your regex: var matchedData = url.match(regVar.source); https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp/source
Now you can properly match a string like this: dir/api/11aa/page/2017 see this example: https://repl.it/Mj8h
As mentioned by Crayon Violent in the comments, it seems you're passing a String rather than a regular expression in the .match() function. maybe try the following:
url.match(new RegExp(regVar, "i"));
to convert the string to a regular expression. The "i" is for ignore case; don't know that's what you want. Learn more here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp
Problem:
Extract image file name from CDN address similar to the following:
https://cdnstorage.api.com/v0/b/my-app.com/o/photo%2FB%_2.jpeg?alt=media&token=4e32-a1a2-c48e6c91a2ba
Two-stage Solution:
I am using two regular expressions to retrieve the file name:
var postLastSlashRegEx = /[^\/]+$/,
preQueryRegEx = /^([^?]+)/;
var fileFromURL = urlString.match(postLastSlashRegEx)[0].match(preQueryRegEx)[0];
// fileFromURL = "photo%2FB%_2.jpeg"
Question:
Is there a way I can combine both regular expressions?
I've tried using capture groups, but haven't been able to produce a working solution.
From my comment
You can use a lookahead to find the "?" and use [^/] to match any non-slash characters.
/[^/]+(?=\?)/
To remove the dependency on the URL needing a "?", you can make the lookahead match a question mark or the end of line indicator (represented by $), but make sure the first glob is non-greedy.
/[^/]+?(?=\?|$)/
You don't have to use regex, you can just use split and substr.
var str = "https://cdnstorage.api.com/v0/b/my-app.com/o/photo%2FB%_2.jpeg?alt=media&token=4e32-a1a2-c48e6c91a2ba".split("?")[0];
var fileName = temp.substr(temp.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
but if regex is important to you, then:
str.match(/[^?]*\/([^?]+)/)[1]
The code using the substring method would look like the following -
var fileFromURL = urlString.substring(urlString.lastIndexOf('/') + 1, urlString.lastIndexOf('?'))
I have a simple question:
How do I use RegExp in Javascript to find strings that matches this filter:
*[0-9].png in order to filter out file sequences.
For example:
bird001.png
bird002.png
bird003.png
or
abc_1.png
abc_2.png
Should ignore strings like abc_1b.png and abc_abc.png
I'm going to use it in a getFiles function.
var regExp = new RegExp(???);
var files = dir.getFiles(regExp);
Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
If I have a defined string, let's say
var beginningStr = "bird";
How can I check if a string matches the filter
beginningStr[0-9].png
? And ideally beginningString without case sensitivity. So that the filter would allow Bird01 and bird02.
Thanks again!
Anything followed by [0-9] and ened by .png:
/^.*[0-9]\.png$/i
Or simply without begining (regex will find it itself):
/[0-9]\.png$/i
If I understood correctly, you need a regex that matches files with names which:
Begin with letters a-z, A-Z
Optionally followed with single _
Followed by one or more digits
Ending with .png
Regex for this is [a-zA-Z]_{0,1}+\d+\.png
You could try online regex builders which offer immediate explanation of what you write.
If I understood correctly,
var re = /\s[a-zA-Z]*[0-9]+\.png/g;
var filesArr = str.match(re);
filesArr.sort();// you can use own sort function
Please specify what is the dir variable
I was able to build a regex to extract a part of a pattern:
var regex = /\w+\[(\w+)_attributes\]\[\d+\]\[own_property\]/g;
var match = regex.exec( "client_profile[foreclosure_defenses_attributes][0][own_property]" );
match[1] // "foreclosure_defenses"
However, I also have a situation where there will be a repetitive pattern like so:
"client_profile[lead_profile_attributes][foreclosure_defenses_attributes][0][own_property]"
In that case, I want to ignore [lead_profile_attributes] and just extract the portion of the last occurence as I did in the first example. In other words, I still want to match "foreclosure_defenses" in this case.
Since all patterns will be like [(\w+)_attributes], I tried to do a lookahead, but it is not working:
var regex = /\w+\[(\w+)_attributes\](?!\[(\w+)_attributes\])\[\d+\]\[own_property\]/g;
var match = regex.exec("client_profile[lead_profile_attributes][foreclosure_defenses_attributes][0][own_property]");
match // null
match returns null meaning that my regex isn't working as expected. I added the following:
\[(\w+)_attributes\](?!\[(\w+)_attributes\])
Because I want to match only the last occurrence of the following pattern:
[lead_profile_attributes][foreclosure_defenses_attributes]
I just want to grab the foreclosure_defenses, not the lead_profile.
What might I be doing wrong?
I think I got it working without positive lookahead:
regex = /(\[(\w+)_attributes\])+/
/(\[(\w+)_attributes\])+/
match = regex.exec(str);
["[a_attributes][b_attributes][c_attributes]", "[c_attributes]", "c"]
I was able to also achieve it through noncapturing groups. Output from chrome console:
var regex = /(?:\w+(\[\w+\]\[\d+\])+)(\[\w+\])/;
undefined
regex
/(?:\w+(\[\w+\]\[\d+\])+)(\[\w+\])/
str = "profile[foreclosure_defenses_attributes][0][properties_attributes][0][other_stuff]";
"profile[foreclosure_defenses_attributes][0][properties_attributes][0][other_stuff]"
match = regex.exec(str);
["profile[foreclosure_defenses_attributes][0][properties_attributes][0][other_stuff]", "[properties_attributes][0]", "[other_stuff]"]