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Regex: matching up to the first occurrence of a character

I am looking for a pattern that matches everything until the first occurrence of a specific character, say a “;” – a semicolon. ...

May 3, 2022
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How can I make my match non greedy in vim?

I have a big HTML file that has lots of markup that looks like this: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-size: ...

May 2, 2022
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Regular expression to extract text between square brackets

Simple regex question. I have a string on the following format: this is a [sample] string with [some] special words....

May 2, 2022
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Regex Match all characters between two strings

Example: “This is just\na simple sentence”. I want to match every character between “This is” and “sentence”. Line breaks should be ignored. I ...

April 30, 2022
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How can I exclude one word with grep?

I need something like: grep ^"unwanted_word"XXXXXXXX 9 s 9 You can do it using -v (for --invert-match) option of grep as: grep -v ...

April 30, 2022
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What do ‘lazy’ and ‘greedy’ mean in the context of regular expressions?

What are these two terms in an understandable way? 12 s 12 Greedy will consume as much as possible. From http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html we see ...

April 27, 2022
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How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Microsoft Excel both in-cell and loops

How can I use regular expressions in Excel and take advantage of Excel’s powerful grid-like setup for data manipulation? In-cell function to return ...

April 27, 2022
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Regular expression to stop at first match

My regex pattern looks something like <xxxx location="file path/level1/level2" xxxx some="xxx"> I am only interested in the part in quotes assigned to location. ...

April 27, 2022
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How to match “anything up until this sequence of characters” in a regular expression?

Take this regular expression: /^...

April 26, 2022
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Regular Expression for alphanumeric and underscores

I would like to have a regular expression that checks if a string contains only upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores. 2Best ...

April 26, 2022
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