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Riga Dev Day
March 13, 2016
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The Language of Regular Expressions. So You Think You Can Speak It? by Rustam Mehmandarov
Riga Dev Day
March 13, 2016
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The Language of Regular Expressions. So You Think You Can
Speak It? Rustam Mehmandarov Riga Dev Day
The Vision http://xkcd.com/208/
…but regex ain’t one! Oh, wait! http://xkcd.com/1171/
The Reality
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(([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})).*\sINFO\s(.*)
Log4j Log File
.*(INFO|WARN).*
.*(INFO|WARN).*
(([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})).*ERROR(.*)
(([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})).*ERROR(.*)
^.*192\.168\.0\.6[^9](.*)$
^.*192.168.0.6[^9](.*)
^.*192\.168\.0\.6[^9](.*)$
^.*192\.168\.0\.6[0-9]+[^9](.*)$
flavou?r
Recap: Quantifiers * + ? {num} {num, num}
Recap: Grouping .*(INFO|WARN)(.*) .*(INFO|WARN)(?:.*)
(WA) 2014-09-09 WAR FILE WARN [com.example.logging.MyLog]
(?=WARN)WA 2014-09-09 WAR FILE WARN [com.example.logging.MyLog]
(?=WARN)WA
Recap: Lookaround (?=foo) -> Lookahead (?<=foo) -> Lookbehind (?!foo) ->
Negative Lookahead (?<!foo) -> Negative Lookbehind
Lookahead: Example
The list
Backreferences
Backreferences (contd.)
Text: OSDC is awesome! HTML: OSDC is <em>awesome</em>! Regex: <.+>
Result:
Text: OSDC is awesome! HTML: OSDC is <em>awesome</em>! Regex: <.+?>
Result:
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/ regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self- contained-tags
Quantifiers Revisited Greedy: *, +, ?, {num, num} Non-greedy: *?,
+?, ??, {num, num}?
Final Recap • Know your data! – Think what you
should match – Think what you should not match • Know your flavor • Know your engine (DFA, NFA) – Backtracking • Greediness • Non-capturing parenthesis • Anchors
MOAR! EXAMPLES!
Matching an IP - 1 Idea 1: ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ Result:
Matching an IP - 2 Idea 2: ^\d\d\d\.\d\d\d\.\d\d\d\.\d\d\d$ Result:
Matching an IP - 3 Idea 3: ^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$ Result:
Matching an IP - 4 Idea 4: ^ ([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\. ([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.
([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\. ([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]) $ Result:
Your New Reality! http://xkcd.com/208/
Thank you! rmehmandarov
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