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Urban Giraffe Support » Forum: Search Regex - Recent Posts http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Urban Giraffe Support » Forum: Search Regex - Recent Posts en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:49:09 +0000 tmcdomains on "Find & Replace a DIV and its contents" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/find-replace-a-div-and-its-contents#post-4072 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:05:56 +0000 tmcdomains 4072@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Can someone please help me with the regular expression to find a DIV of a particular class and everything in the containing div? What I'd like to happen find all instances of the following: <pre class="brush: html; light: true"><div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;">VARIABLE TEXT HERE</div></pre> and delete them. I don't know regex at all, and from reading various forums and code snippets and trying various tools, I'm still not having any luck. What makes the most sense to me is to use <code>(<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;">.*</div>)</code> but Search Regex produces no results. Help? John on "Does Search Regex support Named Capture Groups" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/does-search-regex-support-named-capture-groups#post-3984 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:26:32 +0000 John 3984@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ It supports whatever features PHP's preg_replace supports! Antti on "Does Search Regex support Named Capture Groups" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/does-search-regex-support-named-capture-groups#post-3956 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:22:42 +0000 Antti 3956@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ I'm trying to do some advanced search/replace, sorting HTML tag attributes for images, links, etc. and I'd like to know if Search Regex support Named Capture Groups? I think it should work something like this: <pre class="brush: html; light: true">replace: /wp-images/(?P<image_name>.*?).png with: /images/png/${image_name}.png</pre> But I can't get it to work (This is just an example, but I'm trying to capture the image name into Named Capture Group called "image_name" and then using that on the replace) p.s. Do you have list of supported regex features or more "advanced documentation" for this awesome plugin? Dan on "Help with searching and replacing domain extension" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-with-searching-and-replacing-domain-extension#post-3941 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:03:39 +0000 Dan 3941@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Got it all figured out - please ignore the post. Thanks! Dan on "Help with searching and replacing domain extension" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-with-searching-and-replacing-domain-extension#post-3928 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:24:03 +0000 Dan 3928@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ I've migrated a site, and used the plugin to replace all the internal links in the posts from "old-domain.com" to "new-domain.com" However, I also switched from html to php, so the newly updated internal links still point to: <a href="http://new-domain.com/YY/MM/post-permalink.html" rel="nofollow">http://new-domain.com/YY/MM/post-permalink.html</a> instead of <a href="http://new-domain.com/YY/MM/post-permalink.PHP" rel="nofollow">http://new-domain.com/YY/MM/post-permalink.PHP</a> Could anyone help me find and replace just those html instances with the PHP extension? There are other external links with html extensions, so I can't just do a broad search and replace of html for php, and I'm too new at this to know how to search properly. :) Thanks for the help! Jeremy on "Serious Bug?" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/serious-bug#post-3876 Thu, 20 May 2010 15:31:30 +0000 Jeremy 3876@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ First lemme say thanks for the awesome plugin! I have found what I believe to be a pretty serious bug though. When I choose the replace button (rather than search and replace), if it finds multiple instances of the search term in the same page, then you replace them one at a time, it gets screwy. For instance, if I'm searching for "articles/" to replace with articles.php it behaves like this: First instance in post 233: <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/articles/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/articles/</a> becomes <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/articles.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/articles.php</a> (correct) Second instance in post 233: <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/articles/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/articles/</a> becomes <a href="http://www.mydomain.carticles.phpes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.carticles.phpes/</a> (very wrong) Third instance in post 233: <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/articles/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/articles/</a> becomes <a href="http://www.mydoarticles.phpicles/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydoarticles.phpicles/</a> (even more wrong) and so on... It seems like it's just doing a simple character count to do the replace and when the number of characters before the search term changes, it doesn't account for that. Pretty serious bug I think. Luckily I ran the search again after, noticed the problem and was able to fix it manually. I could see how you might not even notice something like this though if you weren't double checking. Jeremy on "Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: stripslashes" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-instantiate-non-existent-class-stripslashes#post-3875 Thu, 20 May 2010 15:24:02 +0000 Jeremy 3875@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ This seems to be fixed with the latest update. Thanks! Jeremy on "Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: stripslashes" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-instantiate-non-existent-class-stripslashes#post-3849 Fri, 07 May 2010 14:22:46 +0000 Jeremy 3849@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ When I try a search, I get, Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: stripslashes in [PATH]search-regex.php on line 51 Wordpress 2.9.2 PHP 4.3.10 MySQL 4.1.8-standard I tried deactivating all other plugins. Lemme know if anyone else has seen this problem or if you can give me any other tips on troubleshooting. Thanks, Jeremy notrick on "Help A simple REGEX Not Working - Please Help correcting it" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-a-simple-regex-not-working-please-help-correcting-it#post-3807 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:42:02 +0000 notrick 3807@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Hi I tried Posting My Code But Was not able to do so. So I am posting my problem in this Link. The problem is in a plain text <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=g2EBRxK4" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=g2EBRxK4</a> notrick on "Help A simple REGEX Not Working - Please correct It" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-a-simple-regex-not-working-please-correct-it#post-3806 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:20:29 +0000 notrick 3806@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Not again. :( Trying it third Time now. Here is the original code I have a string in my post which is something like <code>XYZ <a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de"><img src="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de" alt="fg" /></a> XYZ</code> I Want to find the string <code><a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de"><img src="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de" alt="fg" /></a></code> This string starts with <code><a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/"></a>)</code> This is working fine in <a href="http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/</a> but not thru. your code. can u please help me ASAP? Thanks a Lot notrick on "Help A simple REGEX Not Working - Please correct It" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-a-simple-regex-not-working-please-correct-it#post-3805 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:19:31 +0000 notrick 3805@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Oops sorry the HTML CODE Screwed up everything. Here is the original code I have a string in my post which is something like [code]XYZ <a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de"><img src="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de" alt="fg" /></a> XYZ[/code] I Want to find the string [code]<a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de"><img src="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de" alt="fg" /></a>[/code] This string starts with [code]<a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/%5B/code%5D%20and%20Ends%20with%20%5Bcode%5Dimg"></a>)[/code] This is working fine in <a href="http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/</a> but not thru. your code. can u please help me ASAP? Thanks a Lot notrick on "Help A simple REGEX Not Working - Please correct It" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-a-simple-regex-not-working-please-correct-it#post-3804 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:13:13 +0000 notrick 3804@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Hi, I have a string in my post which is something like "XYZ <a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de"><img src="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de" alt="de" /> XYZ"; I Want to find the string </a><a href="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de"><img src="http://mydomain.com/~a/b/c/de" alt="de" /> This string starts with - </a><a href="http://mydomain.com/~a%20And%20Ends%20with%20-%20/img">) This regular Expression Works well in <a href="http://gskinner.com/RegExr/" rel="nofollow">http://gskinner.com/RegExr/</a> But Not with your code. Pleaseeeee help me ASAP.</a> Jeremy Johnson on "Searching For Characters With Newline" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/searching-for-characters-with-newline#post-3791 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:27:29 +0000 Jeremy Johnson 3791@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ I should note that where you see 'n' it should be the forward-slash n. Something is filtering it out even with the backticks. Jeremy Johnson on "Searching For Characters With Newline" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/searching-for-characters-with-newline#post-3790 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:22:37 +0000 Jeremy Johnson 3790@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ I'm having trouble with a regex locating text with a newline in it. I'm trying to locate the following text <pre class="brush: html; light: true"> </pre> <pre class="brush: html; light: true">Text Here</pre> <pre class="brush: html; light: true"> </pre> As stored in the DB: <pre class="brush: html; light: true"> nText </pre> However nothing I do can seem to locate it that patter. I've tried several variations of <pre class="brush: html; light: true">( [^<]*)([^<]+?)([^<] )</pre> with no luck. I've even tried just searching for <code> n</code> and that doesn't work either. Any ideas? John on "allow Editor user to access this plug-in/" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/allow-editor-user-to-access-this-plug-in#post-3776 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:32:45 +0000 John 3776@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ There isnt an easy way to do this, sorry John on "Truncating text using regex" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/truncating-text-using-regex#post-3760 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:12:51 +0000 John 3760@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Try this cheatsheet: <a href="http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet/</a> You may be able to use something like {25,} to capture a string of 25 or more characters and then replace this with an ellipsis John on "How Can I do This RegEx Search & Replace?" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/how-can-i-do-this-regex-search-replace#post-3759 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:10:06 +0000 John 3759@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ You need to escape the special regular expression characters otherwise they will be interpreted as a regular expression Glenn on "How Can I do This RegEx Search & Replace?" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/how-can-i-do-this-regex-search-replace#post-3701 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:57:46 +0000 Glenn 3701@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ I need to replace this.. [affmage source="ebay" results="100"]Brass Serial[/affmage] with NOTHING (essentially deleting this whole thing) The problem is everything in the search string is static except where the string "Brass Serial" is. This is variable. I tried doing this but it's not valid: [affmage source="ebay" results="100"]([A-Za-z])[/affmage] Can you help me do this using the plugin? Michael Gilman on "Truncating text using regex" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/truncating-text-using-regex#post-3674 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:27:06 +0000 Michael Gilman 3674@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Apologies for the newbie question. And thanks to the developer for this very useful and elegant plugin. I've used it to create a Wordpress archive of my twitter stream as described here: <a href="http://stopdesign.com/archive/2010/03/02/browsable-searchable-archive-of-tweets.html" rel="nofollow">http://stopdesign.com/archive/2010/03/02/browsable-searchable-archive-of-tweets.html</a> Very cool and works. Have used the search plugin to clean up as described. Now what I'd like to do is to truncate the post titles. Tweets imported via RSS from tweetbackup include the full tweet in the post title. Subsequent tweets, which come in via Twitter Tools, truncate the title to about 30 characters and add an ellipsis (see <a href="http://newhypothesis.com/tweets" rel="nofollow">http://newhypothesis.com/tweets</a> - you need to get to page 3 before you see the old tweets with the full tweet in the title). So what I'd like to do -- if possible -- is come up with a regex string that makes the old post titles look like the newer ones, i.e., truncate the text to 25-30 characters (preferably whole words) and replace the rest with an ellipsis or three periods. But, alas, I'm a regex virgin. Any chance someone can help with this? Or point me to a site where I can perhaps figure it out for myself. I've found some complicated PHP code to do this, but I assume that's not useful in the context of the plugin. Thanks a million. DanoNH on "Issue with search results" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/issue-with-search-results#post-3673 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:01:10 +0000 DanoNH 3673@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ there we go DanoNH on "Issue with search results" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/issue-with-search-results#post-3672 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:00:39 +0000 DanoNH 3672@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ OK, let's try this one more time... <pre class="brush: html; light: true"><a href="#conditions">*</a></pre> DanoNH on "Issue with search results" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/issue-with-search-results#post-3671 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:59:48 +0000 DanoNH 3671@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Sorry I couldn't edit my comments at first (didn't see the link), but the first Replace Pattern field should be <a href="#conditions">*</a> DanoNH on "Issue with search results" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/issue-with-search-results#post-3670 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:57:58 +0000 DanoNH 3670@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ When I search for any search term in the Search Pattern field, if I have quotes in the Replace Pattern field, such as <pre class="brush: html; light: true"><a href="#conditions">*</a></pre> and I select the Replace search option, I am seeing the text below instead of the view | replace | edit links above each results list entry: <pre class="brush: html; light: true">view | *'); return false">replace | edit</pre> where the * is the replace link. Using single quotes in the Replace pattern does not cause the issue. How do I use double-quotes in the Replace Pattern field? Thanks... Dan Tom on "allow Editor user to access this plug-in/" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/allow-editor-user-to-access-this-plug-in#post-3642 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:14:45 +0000 Tom 3642@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Is there a way I can allow a user with Editor access to use this plug-in? I want them to use this but not have access to other Admin functions. The plug-in only shows in the Dashboard menu for Admin users. Thanks. John on "Help with an easy regex" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-with-an-easy-regex#post-3509 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:40:04 +0000 John 3509@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Search: By (w+) Replace: <a href="/category/$1">$1</a> Jonahtan on "Help with an easy regex" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/help-with-an-easy-regex#post-3470 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:06:02 +0000 Jonahtan 3470@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Hi, In all my posts, i have the same words, like that: "By authorname." usually the last word is that. I have written more than 1000 different authorsname and I need a regular expression to find "By authorname" to replace with <code><a href="/category/authorname">By authorname</a></code> I know it sounds easy, but I couldn't do that :( o2cathy on "using "The Regex Coach" to create an expression - errors" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/using-the-regex-coach-to-create-an-expression-errors#post-3336 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:27:24 +0000 o2cathy 3336@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ So, lets try that again: (\d*).bp.blogspot.com/(.*)/(.*(.jpg|.png|.gif)) url.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/\3 o2cathy on "using "The Regex Coach" to create an expression - errors" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/using-the-regex-coach-to-create-an-expression-errors#post-3335 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:26:35 +0000 o2cathy 3335@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Please understand, that I've now been reading up on expressions for a whole day. Novice, am I. I found The Regex Coach, which is fantastic!! [url]http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/index.html#install[/url] Anyhow, I have this fabulous expression to find the blogger images in a newly ported self-hosted WP blog like this: <code>(d*).bp.blogspot.com/(.*)/(.*(.jpg|.png|.gif))</code> And I was very pleased to see that it actually does just pick out the images with this replacement string: <pre class="brush: html; light: true">url.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/3</pre> I'm sure someone knows why this does not work! If I could get some help, I'd be really grateful! I'm not sure how much of this expression business I really want to know .... Thank you! Cathy John on "Does search-regexp works with Wordpress MU ?" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/does-search-regexp-works-with-wordpress-mu#post-3233 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:46:29 +0000 John 3233@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ I haven't tried it but I see no reason why not. stan on "Does search-regexp works with Wordpress MU ?" http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/does-search-regexp-works-with-wordpress-mu#post-3222 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:25:42 +0000 stan 3222@http://urbangiraffe.com/support/ Does search-regexp works with Wordpress MU?