User:ArrowHead294/Regex snippets
These are some regular expressions I use for formatting purposes:
| Pattern | Replace by | Purpose |
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^(?:\+|-|\x{2212})?(?:(?:\d{1,3}?(?:\,\d{3})*|\d+)\.?\d*|\d*\.?\d+)(?:[Ee][+-]?\d+)?$
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N/A | Match a number |
(?<!(<[Nn][Oo][Ww][Ii][Kk][Ii]>[^\n]*)|\{|\})(?<=\n)(\||\!)\s*(?!-|<\/[Nn][Oo][Ww][Ii][Kk][Ii]>|\{|\})
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\1
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Space out pipe characters and header separators in tables (one cell per line)* |
(?<!(?:<[Nn][Oo][Ww][Ii][Kk][Ii]>[^\n]*(?=<\/[Nn][Oo][Ww][Ii][Kk][Ii]>)|\{|\}))[^\S\r\n]*(\|\|\|?|!!!?)[^\S\r\n]*(?!-|[^\n]*<\/[Nn][Oo][Ww][Ii][Kk][Ii]>(?=<\/[Nn][Oo][Ww][Ii][Kk][Ii]>)|\{|\})
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\1
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Space out pipe characters and header separators in tables (entire row per line)* |
* Requires support for variable-length lookaheads and lookbehinds