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 |
(?<!(<\/\w+>[^\n]*)|\{|\})(?<=\n)(\||!)\s*(?!-|<\/\w+>|\{|\})
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\1
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Space out pipe characters and header separators in tables (one cell per line)* |
(?<!(?:<\/\w+>[^\n]*(?=<\/\w+>)|\{|\}))[^\S\r\n]*(\|\|\|?|!!!?)[^\S\r\n]*(?!-|[^\n]*<\/\w+>(?=<\/\w+>)|\{|\})
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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