Regex: Find that words that have html, but doesn't have .dot before html.

Hellena Crainicu · Nov 10, 2021, 11:48 AM

hello, I need to find that words that have html, but doesn’t have .dot before html. See the lines below:

I go home now.html" and then
Take me with you nowhtml" and then
asfa asdfdsa
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" >
<html lang="en-US" xmlns:og="schema/">

The Output should be the line 2, because is contains WORD+HTML, but without .HTML:

Take me with you nowhtml" and then

I made a regex, but is not very good, because it finds all lines that doesn’t have .HTML

SEARCH: ^(?=.*html)(?:(?!\w+\.html).)+$

Alan Kilborn · Nov 10, 2021, 12:31 PM

@hellena-crainicu

You seem to ask a lot of regex questions.
You’d be better served by really studying regex and solving your own problems.
Likely soon this forum will quit just handing you the answers.

But…

You might try (?-s)^.*?\whtml.*, but it will match line 5 in addition to line 2. If this is not desired, you have to be more specific about what you need.

Hellena Crainicu · Nov 10, 2021, 12:36 PM

@alan-kilborn

(?-s)^.*?\whtml.*

your regex is almost good, but it finds 2 lines, instead of one:

Take me with you nowhtml" and then

and

<!--<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" >

THE OUTPUT must be only:

Take me with you nowhtml" and then

p.s. I ask, because my solution is not to good, and I am not an expert on regex. But as you can see, is not easy to find the solution on this problem.

Alan Kilborn · Nov 10, 2021, 12:50 PM

@hellena-crainicu said in Regex: Find that words that have html, but doesn't have .dot before html.:

your regex is almost good, but it finds 2 lines, instead of one:

Yes. Did you read where I wrote?:

it will match line 5 in addition to line 2. If this is not desired, you have to be more specific about what you need

Robin Cruise · Nov 10, 2021, 8:17 PM

try this regex:

SEARCH: (?:^|\h)\w+html" This will match your request.

but, also, can be a 6 case which you missed. Suppose you have a link such as: https://mywebsite.com/prince-is-my-fatherhtml

So, in this case, the [dot] before html is missing. But I don’t know how to handle this situation…

Robin Cruise · Nov 10, 2021, 9:35 PM

ok, try this solution, very good for all your example and for the 6’ case:

SEARCH: ^(?=.*https://)(?:(?!\.html).)+$