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regular expressions – same for all languages?

is the regexp the same between languages? for example. if i want to use it in javascript, would i have to search for regexp for javascript specifically. cause i got some cheat sheets. it just says regular expression. i wonder if i could use this on all languages, php, javascript and so on. Answer The basics a…

Using regex to extract username from email address

My string of text looks like this: I need to get just the part before the @ and nothing else. The text is coming from a simple XML object if that matters any. The code I have looks like this: Sometimes the username might have numbers or an underscore before the @ symbol, which is where the regex stops it

PHP RegExp for nested Div tags

I need a regexp I can use with PHP’s preg_match_all() to match out content inside div-tags. The divs look like this: I’ve come up with this regexp so far which matches out all divs with id=”t[number]” The problem is when the content consists of more divs, nested divs like this: Any ide…

regexp with russian lang

I can’t solve my problem with regexp. Ok, when i type: everything is ok, except situation with Russian language. so, i try to re-type this reg-exp: but this not working, i know some idea, just write: but this is crazy 😀 please, give me simple variant Answer Try a Unicode range: Don’t forget the /u…

Regex for names

Just starting to explore the ‘wonders’ of regex. Being someone who learns from trial and error, I’m really struggling because my trials are throwing up a disproportionate amount of errors… My experiments are in PHP using ereg(). Anyway. I work with first and last names separately but f…