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Matches text between each pair of asterisks (see URL above for demo)
**Example:**
Make text between asterisks bold, like in Textile (in Ruby):
`test.gsub(/(\*)+([^.*?$]+)+(\*)/, '<strong>\\2</strong>')`
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posted 13 years ago by inko9nito
These five characters should be replaced with their HTML entity names before being used in XML, otherwise they may cause the XML to be invalid.
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posted 13 years ago by adrianparr
This snippet replaces all three different version strings in file `verid.h` using regular expressions with the value of properties `$(Major)`, `%(Minor)`, `$(SP)` and `$(Build)` when the property `$(Label)` has value _true_.
To run this project you...
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posted 13 years ago by cappellin
replace foo -> bar in all .txt files down the tree
Dunno why, the syntax highlighter adds \3's to the code. Try plain text.
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posted 14 years ago by jarnaldich
Searches down the current directory every file whose name matches (case insensitively) {{file_pattern}} for the regexp {{text}}.
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posted 14 years ago by jarnaldich
it parses given string and returns 1st number it encounters ( it will replace comas with dots so floats formatted as 12,345 could be 12.345 ( some countries use that ) )
then u can parse returned value as a number / float / int - do what You need...
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posted 14 years ago by stryju
This regular expression used in Ruby will extract the characters between single or multi-character delimiters. It helps when you have strange delimiters such as \":delimeter1: text I want to grab goes here :delimiter2:\"
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posted 14 years ago by webonomic
I\'m trying to find an expression to match a whole sentence. So really the pattern is the regex of the subject.
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posted 14 years ago by thefrosty
As an example – will find and replace all `<b>` elements with `<strong>`
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posted 14 years ago by jayphen
Use this regex search in Dreamweaver's find/replace to remove any html tag attributes
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posted 14 years ago by bjornredemption
A very liberal validation of phone number. Assures there are at least 10 digits in there somewhere.
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posted 14 years ago by housecor
ActionScript 3
AS3 Trim a Comma Delimited String (e.g. a list of comma separated keywords entered by a user)
This function trims a string and removes empty entries in a comma delimited list, removes extra commas from the beginning and end and also remove extra space characters between words.
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posted 14 years ago by adrianparr
I\'ve added an additional case to handle videos linked from a user\'s channel.
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posted 14 years ago by Jamie
A source to help you interpreting URLs in plain text as a HTML link. It's an improvement of what was proposed here : http://snipplr.com/view/2371/regex-regular-expression-to-match-a-url/
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posted 14 years ago by keevkilla