Regex: Select all html tags which no contain characters, and onother regex that contain only tags with simbols

[Hellena Crainicu]

I have this regex

Regex: Select all html tags which contain no characters:

<p>下列特别条款适用</p>
<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 
<p>于本保险单的各个部分，若其</p>

The regex must find only these lines :

<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p>

My regex is not working:

<\/?(?![a-zA-Z0-9])[a-zA-Z0-9]*[^<>]*>

or this:

<p>.*(?-s)(?![a-zA-Z0-9])*</p>

[Lycan Thrope]

@Hellena-Crainicu ,
I’m no guru, but I believe the Kanji(?) characters are still considered characters per regex, aren’t they? I’m not Unicode proficient, so excuse me if this is irrelevant to the discussion.

I tried both regex on the example, and escaping the </p> with <\/p> worked in the Regex 101 website and NPP…using your first regex, found only the </p> characters.

[Hellena Crainicu]

@Lycan-Thrope ok

I try another way. I believe is good:

<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff]).*</p>

[Lycan Thrope]

@Hellena-Crainicu said in Regex: Select all html tags which no contain characters, and onother regex that contain only tags with simbols:

<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff]).*</p>

That worked, except for the underscores…which I think is included with the [a-z][A-Z] aspect of regex, as acceptable characters, Nope, that wasn’t an error after all. It didn’t find the underscores, that your “should look like” was asking that it show. For some reason, the underscores are ignored in the search.

[Hellena Crainicu]

@Lycan-Thrope said in Regex: Select all html tags which no contain characters, and onother regex that contain only tags with simbols:

<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff]).*</p>

That worked, except for the underscores…which I think is included with the [a-z][A-Z] aspect of regex, as acceptable characters

Yes, strange. I try this, but still cannot find _ underscores

<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff_]+\s*<\/p>)[^<>]*<\/p>
or
<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff_]+\s*<\/p>)[^\w_]*<\/p>

[Lycan Thrope]

@Hellena-Crainicu said in Regex: Select all html tags which no contain characters, and onother regex that contain only tags with simbols:

Yes, strange. I try this, but still cannot find _ underscores

<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff_]+\s*</p>)[^<>]*</p>

This regex recaptures the kanji

this one works by not finding the kanji

or
<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\u4e00-\u9fff_]+\s*</p>)[^\w_]*</p>

[Lycan Thrope]

@Hellena-Crainicu ,
Maybe you should wait for the gurus. :-)
I can’t find a way to allow _ or #95 or #5F to be allowed to show.

Perhaps some new eyes might help. Good luck.

[guy038]

Hello, @hellena-crainicu, @lycan-thrope and All,

Both of you did the same mistake : the \u#### syntax, to describe a specific character, DOES NOT exist for the Boost regex engine ! The RIGHT syntax which works is \x{####} ;-))

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Secondly, @helena-crainicu, even if you’re using the correct syntax, below :

<p>\s*(?![a-zA-Z\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}]).*</p>

This line <p>---别条款适用</p> line, which begins with a symbol, after <p>, would also match !

May be, you would have preferred the following syntax which matches the entire line, ONLY IF all chars, between <p> and </p>, are different from a usual letter and different from a Chinese character

MARK (?s-i)^\s*<p>((?![a-zA-Z\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}]).)*</p>

Thus, from this INPUT file :

<p>下列特别条款适用</p>
<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
<p>---别条款适用</p>
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 
<p>于本保险单的各个部分，若其</p>

It would ONLY mark these sections :

<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 

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Now, I improved your regex to a multi line regex, expressed with the free-spacing mode, where any char considered as a word character ( \w ) is forbidden except for the underscore character, thanks to the syntax [\W_], in a positive look-ahead, at any position between <p> and </p>

MARK (?xs-i) ^ \s* <p> ( (?= [\W_] ) . )* </p>

So, for example, with this INPUT text :

<p>下列特
别条款适用</p>
    <p>         。</p>
<p>--
-</p>  
   <p>__
 ____</p>  
<p>---下列特
别条款适用 @@@</p>
 <p>   </p> 
<p>于本保险单的
各个部分，若其
</p>
  <p>_____
----
####  		
   </p>
<p> Not allowed</p>
   <p>~~~
   ~~</p>

It would ONLY mark these lines, in 6 matches :

    <p>         。</p>
<p>--
-</p>  
   <p>__
 ____</p>  
 <p>   </p> 
  <p>_____
----
####  		
   </p>
   <p>~~~
   ~~</p>

Best Regards,

guy038

Note that the syntax (?xs-i) ^ \s* <p> ( (?= [\W_] ) . )*? </p>, with a question mark, near the end of the regex, is not mandatory because the </p> string CANNOT be found between the boundaries <p> and </p> because each char must not be a word char, thus different for the p letter !

[Hellena Crainicu]

@guy038 super answer. Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas !

[Hellena Crainicu]

by the way, @guy038

Is there a vice-versa formula regex? For example, I want to use a regex to find the opposite. Only tags that containe characters.

In the example, I need to find only the first and the last line.

<p>下列特别条款适用</p>
<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 
<p>于本保险单的各个部分，若其</p>

What would be the regex formula in this case?

[mkupper]

@Hellena-Crainicu said in Regex: Select all html tags which no contain characters, and onother regex that contain only tags with simbols:

by the way, @guy038

Is there a vice-versa formula regex? For example, I want to use a regex to find the opposite. Only tags that containe characters.

In the example, I need to find only the first and the last line.

<p>下列特别条款适用</p>
<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 
<p>于本保险单的各个部分，若其</p>

What would be the regex formula in this case?

The CJK Unified Ideographs run from \x{4E00} to \x{9FFF}.
You also use ， which is \x{FF0C} or a fullwidth comma,
You can use <p>[\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\x{FF0C}]+</p> to match any paragraph containing only CJK Unified Ideographs and/or the fullwidth comma.

A not in regular expressions is tricky as it means everything in the character set that is not something. For example [^\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\x{FF0C}] matches everything in the character set that is not a CJK Unified Ideograph or the fullwidth comma. It matches end of line characters and everything else including the characters <, /, p, and >.

Thus we use <p>[^\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\x{FF0C}<]*</p> which will match the leading <p> followed by [^\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\x{FF0C}<]* to match anything not a CJK Unified Ideograph, or the fullwidth comma, or the < left angle bracket which is followed by the trailing </p> which starts with a < left angle bracket.

Note that this works well for Basic Multilingual Plane characters which are \x{0000} to \x{ffff}. If your text files and/or regular expressions contain extended Unicode characters from U+10000 to U+10FFFF then you will can run into issues.

[Hellena Crainicu]

@mkupper your regex is good for chinese. thanks. But I forgot to change the last line. Instead of chinesse, should be latino words.

In this case, your regex would not find the last line. So, both line must be find.

<p>下列特别条款适用</p>
<p>         。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 
<p>I love reading books</p>

[mkupper]

@Hellena-Crainicu said in Regex: Select all html tags which no contain characters, and onother regex that contain only tags with simbols:

In this case, your regex would not find the last line. So, both line must be find.

As I have posted before, I encourage you to experiment and think as that is what will lead to learning how to use something. You have already been provided with the nuts and bolts of how to create regular expressions including things such as (this|or|that) that could easily be used to handle (Chinese|Latino).

[guy038]

Hi, @hellena-crainicu,

I suppose that the best would be to know which characters your’re looking for ( either word and symbol/punctuation characters )

So, from these two tables below, could you tell us which characters you are supposed to search for, among all your files :

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1) Regarding Word characters in :

    •----•------------------------------------•-------------•---•---------------------------•---------------------------------------------•
    |  A | Basic LATIN ( ASCII )              | 0000 - 007F | x | (?s).*[\x{0000}-\x{007F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf |
    |  B | LATIN-1 Supplement                 | 0080 - 00FF | • | (?s).*[\x{0080}-\x{00FF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf |
    |  C | LATIN Extended-A                   | 0100 - 017F | • | (?s).*[\x{0100}-\x{017F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf |
    |  D | LATIN Extended-B                   | 0180 - 024F | • | (?s).*[\x{0180}-\x{024F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf |
    |  E | LATIN Extended Additional          | 1E00 - 1EFF | • | (?s).*[\x{1E00}-\x{1EFF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1E00.pdf |
    |  F | LATIN Extended-C                   | 2C60 - 2C7F | • | (?s).*[\x{2C60}-\x{2C7F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2C60.pdf |
    |  G | LATIN Extended-D                   | A720 - A7FF | • | (?s).*[\x{A720}-\x{A7FF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf |
    |  H | LATIN Extended-E                   | AB30 - AB6F | • | (?s).*[\x{AB30}-\x{AB6F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UAB30.pdf |
    |  I | HALFWIDTH/FULLWITH Forms           | FF00 - FFEF | • | (?s).*[\x{FF00}-\x{FFEF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFF00.pdf |
    •----•------------------------------------•-------------•---•---------------------------•---------------------------------------------•
    |  J | CJK Radicals Supplement            | 2E80 - 2EFF | • | (?s).*[\x{2E80}-\x{2EFF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E80.pdf |
    |  K | KANGXI Radicals                    | 2F00 - 2FDF | • | (?s).*[\x{2F00}-\x{2FDF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2F00.pdf |
    |  L | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A | 3400 - 4DBF | • | (?s).*[\x{3400}-\x{4DBF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3400.pdf |
    |  M | CJK Unified Ideographs (Han )      | 4E00 - 9FFF | x | (?s).*[\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf |
    |  N | CJK Compatibility Ideographs       | F900 - FAFF | • | (?s).*[\x{F900}-\x{FAFF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UF900.pdf |
    •----•------------------------------------•-------------•---•---------------------------•---------------------------------------------•

2) Regarding Symbol/Punctuation characters in :

    •----•------------------------------------•-------------•---•---------------------------•---------------------------------------------•
    |  1 | ASCII Punctuation                  | 0000 - 007F | x | (?s).*[\x{0000}-\x{007F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf |
    |  2 | LATIN-1 Punctuation                | 0080 - 00FF | • | (?s).*[\x{0080}-\x{00FF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf |
    |  3 | GENERAL Punctuation                | 2000 - 206F | • | (?s).*[\x{2000}-\x{206F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf |
    |  4 | SUPPLEMENTAL Punctuation           | 2E00 - 2E7F | • | (?s).*[\x{2E00}-\x{2E7F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf |
    |  5 | VERTICAL Forms                     | FE10 - FE1F | • | (?s).*[\x{FE10}-\x{FE1F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE10.pdf |
    |  6 | SMALL form Variants                | FE50 - FE6F | • | (?s).*[\x{FE50}-\x{FE6F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE50.pdf |
    |  7 | HALFWIDTH/FULLWIDTH LATIN Forms    | FF00 - FFEF | x | (?s).*[\x{FF00}-\x{FFEF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFF00.pdf |
    •----•------------------------------------•-------------•---•---------------------------•---------------------------------------------•
    |  8 | Ideographic Desciption characters  | 2FF0 - 2FFF | • | (?s).*[\x{2FF0}-\x{2FFF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2FF0.pdf |
    |  9 | CJK Symbols and Punctuation        | 3000 - 303F | x | (?s).*[\x{3000}-\x{303F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf |
    | 10 | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months    | 3200 - 32FF | • | (?s).*[\x{3200}-\x{32FF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3200.pdf |
    | 11 | CJK Compatibility                  | 3300 - 33FF | • | (?s).*[\x{3300}-\x{33FF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3300.pdf |
    | 12 | CJK Stokes                         | 31C0 - 31EF | • | (?s).*[\x{31C0}-\x{31EF}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U31C0.pdf |
    | 13 | CJK Compatibility Forms            | FE30 - FE4F | • | (?s).*[\x{FE30}-\x{FE4F}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE30.pdf |
    | 14 | Halfwidth CJK Punctuation          | FF61 - FF64 | • | (?s).*[\x{FF61}-\x{FF64}] | http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFF00.pdf |
    •----•------------------------------------•-------------•---•---------------------------•---------------------------------------------•

Then, it should be easier to see what must be matched / unmatched ;-))

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Not a big task, anyway ! We already know that :

• The word chars, in lines A and M, must be considered

• The Symbol/Punctuation chars, in lines 1, 7 ( because \x{FF0C} ) and 9 ( because \x{3002} ), must be taken in account, too

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Thus, if all your files are located in a single folder :

• Open the Find in Files dialog ( Shift + Ctrl + F )

• Uncheck the Match whole word only and Match case options, if necessary

• Enter $0 in the Replace with : zone

• Enter your file extension in the Filters : zone

• Enter your searched folder in the Directory : one

• Select the Regular expression search mode

• For each line which contain a • in the fourth column of the above tables

  • Enter the corresponding regex in the Find what : zone

  • Click on the Find All button ( Only 1 result per file )

  • If one or several result(s) for a specific line occur(s), this means that its searched range must be taken in account

=> So, just notice us about all the remaining lines which should be considered too !

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Two remarks :

• I voluntarily omitted all Unicode ranges over the BMP, so with value over \x{FFFF}

• I also omitted any Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul and Japanese Unicode ranges. If necessary, tell me about it !

Best Regards,

guy038

[Hellena Crainicu]

@guy038 @mkupper

I find the solution:

<p>下列特别条款适用</p>
<p>     。</p>
<p>---</p>  
 <p>______</p>  
 <p> </p> 
<p>I love reading books</p>
<p>:    </p>

These 2 regex below find also latino and chinesse characters tags:

FIND: <p>.*[\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}a-zA-Z]+.*<\/p>

ot this:

FIND: <p>.*[\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\p{Latin}].*<\/p>

I made other tests, such as the following:

Find only chinese characters tags:

<p>(?=.*[\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}])(?=.*[a-zA-Z]).*<\/p>
<p>(?=.*[\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}])[a-zA-Z\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}].*<\/p>
<p>(?=[^\x00-\x7F]+)[^\x00-\x7F]+<\/p>
<p>(?:(?=[^\x00-\x7F]+)[^\x00-\x7F]+|[a-zA-Z]+)<\/p>
<p>(?:(?![a-zA-Z])[^\x00-\x7F]+|[a-zA-Z]+)<\/p>
<p>(?:[\x{4e00}-\x{9fff}]|[a-zA-Z])+<\/p>

Find only latino characters tags:

<p>.*([\p{Latin}\p{Han}]).*<\/p>

[guy038]

Hello, @hellena-crainicu and All,

I can assure you that your sub-regexes [\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\p{Latin}] and [\p{Latin}\p{Han}] should NOT have worked as expected, during your texts !!

Indeed, our present Boost regex engine does NOT support :

• The normal Unicode syntax \p{name} like, for example, in \p{Lu} or \p{IsCyrillic}

• The inverse Unicode syntax \P{name} like, for example in \P(C) or \P{IsGreek}

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Thus, more simply :

• Your sub-regex [\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\p{Latin}] would match any char from the CJK Unified Ideographs Unicode block or the latin letters p, L, a, t, i, n and the two symbols { and }

• Your sub-regex [\p{Latin}\p{Han}] would match the Latin letters H, L, a, i, n, p, t and the two symbols { and }

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IF Boost had been compiled to support Unicode and ICU, the regex syntaxes, mentionned at the beginning, would have been possible.

For instance, the regex (?=P{L})\p{IsLetterlikeSymbols} or the regex (?!p{L})\p{IsLetterlikeSymbols} would match ANY single Letterlike Symbols character which does NOT belong to the General Category Letter

So, given my present Consolas font, installed on my Windows10 laptop, it would return the 34 characters, of the list below, out of the 80 characters of the Letterlike Symbols block !

Refer to http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf

•--------•------------------------------------•-------•--------------------•---------•
|  Code  |           Character Name           |   GC  |  General Category  |   Char  |
•--------•------------------------------------•-------•--------------------•---------•
|  2118  |  SCRIPT CAPITAL P                  |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ℘    |
|  2140  |  DOUBLE-STRUCK N-ARY SUMMATION     |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ⅀    |
|  2141  |  TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL G       |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ⅁    |
|  2142  |  TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL L       |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ⅂    |
|  2143  |  REVERSED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL L     |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ⅃    |
|  2144  |  TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL Y       |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ⅄    |
|  214B  |  TURNED AMPERSAND                  |   Sm  |    Symbol, math    |    ⅋    |
•--------•------------------------------------•-------•--------------------•---------•
|  2100  |  ACCOUNT OF                        |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℀    |
|  2101  |  ADDRESSED TO THE SUBJECT          |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℁    |
|  2103  |  DEGREE CELSIUS                    |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℃    |
|  2104  |  CENTRE LINE SYMBOL                |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℄    |
|  2105  |  CARE OF                           |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℅    |
|  2106  |  CADA UNA                          |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℆    |
|  2108  |  SCRUPLE                           |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℈    |
|  2109  |  DEGREE FAHRENHEIT                 |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℉    |
|  2114  |  L B BAR SYMBOL                    |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℔    |
|  2116  |  NUMERO SIGN                       |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    №    |
|  2117  |  SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT         |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℗    |
|  211E  |  PRESCRIPTION TAKE                 |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℞    |
|  211F  |  RESPONSE                          |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℟    |
|  2120  |  SERVICE MARK                      |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℠    |
|  2121  |  TELEPHONE SIGN                    |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℡    |
|  2122  |  TRADE MARK SIGN                   |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ™    |
|  2123  |  VERSICLE                          |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℣    |
|  2125  |  OUNCE SIGN                        |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℥    |
|  2127  |  INVERTED OHM SIGN                 |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℧    |
|  2129  |  TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA    |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℩    |
|  212E  |  ESTIMATED SYMBOL                  |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℮    |
|  213A  |  ROTATED CAPITAL Q                 |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℺    |
|  213B  |  FACSIMILE SIGN                    |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ℻    |
|  214A  |  PROPERTY LINE                     |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ⅊    |
|  214C  |  PER SIGN                          |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ⅌    |
|  214D  |  AKTIESELSKAB                      |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ⅍    |
|  214F  |  SYMBOL FOR SAMARITAN SOURCE       |   So  |    Symbol, other   |    ⅏    |
•--------•------------------------------------•-------•--------------------•---------•

Best Regards,

guy038

[Hellena Crainicu]

@guy038 thanks, do you have a better solution?

[guy038]

Hello, @hellena-crainicu,

Well, simply answer my previous post !

Best Regards

guy038

[Hellena Crainicu]

@guy038 happy new year, all notepad++ team !! The best editor on earth !