Tutorial by Examples: re

Recovering from a lost commit

In case you have reverted back to a past commit and lost a newer commit you can recover the lost commit by running git reflog Then find your lost commit, and reset back to it by doing git reset HEAD --hard <sha1-of-commit>

Git • Recovering

Restore a deleted file after a commit

In case you have accidentally commited a delete on a file and later realized that you need it back. First find the commit id of the commit that deleted your file. git log --diff-filter=D --summary Will give you a sorted summary of commits which deleted files. Then proceed to restore the file b...

Git • Recovering

Restore file to a previous version

To restore a file to a previous version you can use reset. git reset <sha1-of-commit> <file-name> If you have already made local changes to the file (that you do not require!) you can also use the --hard option

Git • Recovering

Recover a deleted branch

To recover a deleted branch you need to find the commit which was the head of your deleted branch by running git reflog You can then recreate the branch by running git checkout -b <branch-name> <sha1-of-commit> You will not be able to recover deleted branches if git's garbage col...

Git • Recovering

Specifying structure using XPath expressions

SELECT 'XPath example' AS 'head/title', 'This example demonstrates ' AS 'body/p', 'https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/' AS 'body/p/a/@href', 'XPath expressions' AS 'body/p/a' FOR XML PATH('html') <html> <head> <title>XPath example</title> &...

Microsoft SQL Server • FOR XML PATH

Reducing values

5.1 The reduce() method applies a function against an accumulator and each value of the array (from left-to-right) to reduce it to a single value. Array Sum This method can be used to condense all values of an array into a single value: [1, 2, 3, 4].reduce(function(a, b) { return a + b; }); ...

JavaScript • Arrays

Class lambdas and capture of this

A lambda expression evaluated in a class' member function is implicitly a friend of that class: class Foo { private: int i; public: Foo(int val) : i(val) {} // definition of a member function void Test() { auto lamb = [](Foo &foo, int val) ...

C++ • Lambdas

Named Capture Groups

Some regular expression flavors allow named capture groups. Instead of by a numerical index you can refer to these groups by name in subsequent code, i.e. in backreferences, in the replace pattern as well as in the following lines of the program. Numerical indexes change as the number or arrangemen...

Regular Expressions • Capture Groups

Creating a map

One can declare and initialize a map in a single statement using a composite literal. Using automatic type Short variable declaration: mapIntInt := map[int]int{10: 100, 20: 100, 30: 1000} mapIntString := map[int]string{10: "foo", 20: "bar", 30: "baz"} mapStringInt :...

Go • Maps

Using ThreadLocal

A useful tool in Java Concurrency is ThreadLocal – this allows you to have a variable that will be unique to a given thread. Thus, if the same code runs in different threads, these executions will not share the value, but instead each thread has its own variable that is local to the thread. For exa...

Java Language • Concurrent Programming (Threads)

Negate a Bool with the prefix ! operator

The prefix ! operator returns the logical negation of its argument. That is, !true returns false, and !false returns true. print(!true) // prints "false" print(!false) // prints "true" func test(_ someBoolean: Bool) { if !someBoolean { print("someBoolean ...

Swift Language • Booleans

Creating Arrays

Creating immutable arrays: NSArray *myColors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"Red", @"Green", @"Blue", @"Yellow", nil]; // Using the array literal syntax: NSArray *myColors = @[@"Red", @"Green", @"Blue", @"Yellow"]; ...

Objective-C Language • NSArray

Handling Attributes with Different Languages

You can "overwrite" a parent element's language declaration by introducing any element apart from applet, base, basefont, br, frame, frameset, hr, iframe, meta, param, script (of HTML 4.0) with an own lang attribute: <p lang="en" title="An English paragraph"> ...

HTML • Content Languages

Fixtures

From Wikipedia: A test fixture is something used to consistently test some item, device, or piece of software. It can also enhance readability of tests by extracting common initialisation / finalisation code from the test methods themselves. Where common initialisation can be executed once in...

junit • Tests

Recurse the whole pattern

The construct (?R) is equivalent to (?0) (or \g<0>) - it lets you recurse the whole pattern: <(?>[^<>]+|(?R))+> This will match properly balanced angle brackets with any text in-between the brackets, like <a<b>c<d>e>.

Regular Expressions • Recursion

Recurse into a subpattern

You can recurse into a subpattern using the following constructs (depending on the flavor), assuming n is a capturing group number, and name the name of a capturing group. (?n) \g<n> \g'0' (?&name) \g<name> \g'name' (?P>name) The following pattern: \[(?<angle>&...

Regular Expressions • Recursion

Relative group references

Subpatterns can be referenced with their relative group number: (?-1) will recurse into the previous group (?+1) will recurse into the next group Also usable with the \g<N> syntax.

Regular Expressions • Recursion

Precompiled patterns

import re precompiled_pattern = re.compile(r"(\d+)") matches = precompiled_pattern.search("The answer is 41!") matches.group(1) # Out: 41 matches = precompiled_pattern.search("Or was it 42?") matches.group(1) # Out: 42 Compiling a pattern allows it to be r...

Python Language • Regular Expressions (Regex)

What a named capture group looks like

Given the flavors, the named capture group may looks like this: (?'name'X) (?<name>X) (?P<name>X) With X being the pattern you want to capture. Let's consider the following string: Once upon a time there was a pretty little girl... Once upon a time there was a unicorn with an h...

Regular Expressions • Named capture groups

Reference a named capture group

As you may (or not) know, you can reference a capture group with: $1 1 being the group number. In the same way, you can reference a named capture group with: ${name} \{name} g\{name} Let's take the preceding example and replace the matches with The hero of the story is a ${subject}. T...

Regular Expressions • Named capture groups