Here are some sample cells: Brake Pad Hl Db01 Pad For Hl-280 Disc Pair Brake Pad Shimano Br-M755 Metal Disc Pad M03  Here is what I want them to become: Brake Pad Hl Db01 Pad For HL-280 Disc Pair Brake Pad Shimano BR-M755 Metal Disc Pad M03   Here is what I've got so far in my Find & Replace ...

Hi all    I am working on some search portal and heaviliy based on regexes.  Here my need is - I have some search term.Based on location on that search term in the input String , I pick next 2 lines and previous 2 lines . Total five lines i append to string builder =prev 2 +line that includes search term +next 2 ...

I am performing a grep find and replace in my text editor TextWrangler on a very large CSV data file. I have a source string of hello??world ??goodnight?? moon?? wake up and would like to replace the ?? substring with -- ONLY when it is bounded by non-whitespace characters on both sides, yielding a target string of hello--world ??goodnight?? ...

Hi regex experts, I’m searching for a regular expression for PHP’s preg_replace() in order to adjust concatenated strings (no multi-line). These strings are fragments in German which form a sentence and therefore need to be (automatically) edited to adhere to grammar conventions. Roughly speaking, the regular expression should ...

Software Environment:Renamer4Mac, TextWrangler (both using grep with perl-compatible regex as their backend) Given String:My File 1.txt Regex search "Find a single digit prepended by a non-digit..." ([^\d])(\d{1}) Regex replace "...and prepend with it with a leading zero": \10\2 Expected result:My File 01.txt Effective ...

Hello, I need help! I got this password validation expression (?=.{6,})(?=(.*\d){1,})(?=(.*\W){1,}) and should add additional "rule". The rules in this expression are: the pwd has to be at least 6 chars long, contain at least one digit and contain at least one special character. The "rule" or expression I should add, should ...

Sorry for not mentioning the programming language.  I am using PHP.    But the above examples still do not specifically match strings that have three consecutive letters, instead they just see if there are three letters in that string and then print that string if therer is a match.    Again, what would be the regex ...

Hello, this is my first post so bear with me. I made a quick search through the forum and found nothing, so any feedback is appreciated. Recently I have been studying spam using regular expressions in a mail proxy called SpamPal to cleanly divide each message into folders that best describe their characteristics. I feel I grasp the basics of the ...

I ran into an interesting situation where back references overwrite previous changes in a regular expression. I needed a regular expression that updated a pattern but also checked for something that comes before the pattern.  It should leave everything before the pattern as it was before the updates.  There can be multiple matches of ...

In the context of the regex dialect of XSLT 2.0, I am looking for two "meta-regexes" that analyse other regexes. Each is discussed in a part of its own. (Part 1 posted as: Meta-regex for variable-length matching regexes (XSLT)) Part 2 Aim: A regex that provides for pre-calculating the length of the match that a fixed-length matching ...