Regex Snippets

A VS Code Extension with a list of 50+ hand picked Regex Code Snippets to make lives of many Developers much easier.

Why This Extension?

There are no extensions for Regular Expressions Snippets on the Marketplace right now, this extension provides the most commonly used Regex Snippets so that you don't have to memorize the difficult syntax which in turn reduces development time.

Snippets

The following table shows all the 50+ code snippets included within this extension

Sl No.	Prefix	Description	Input Required
1	`!valemail`	Email Address Validation	N/A
2	`!valhexcol`	Hexadecimal Color Validation	N/A
3	`!valpass`	Password Validation (1 uppercase,1 lowercase, 1 number, 1 special)	2 Inputs: `min` and `max` length for the password
4	`!valisbn`	ISBN Number Validation	N/A
5	`!valipv4`	IPV4 Address Validation	N/A
6	`!valipv6`	IPV6 Address Validation	N/A
7	`!valmmddyy`	Date Validation In mm/dd/yy format (Separator Does Not Matter)	N/A
8	`!valmonddyyyy`	Date Validation In mon/dd/yyyy format (Ex: Jan/23/2001, Separator does not matter)	N/A
9	`!valmonth`	Month Validation (Both Full and Abbreviated Form, Ex: Jan(uary))	N/A
10	`!extprice`	Extract Price Value from any string	1 Input: `currency_symbol` for the currency you want to use
11	`!parehead`	Parse an Email Header to retrieve "To" address	N/A
12	`!valfbllink`	Check if the give Facebook Profile Link is valid	N/A
13	`!valcc`	Credit Card Validation (Does not check for fake numbers) Supported Cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover, and JCB	N/A
14	`!valusername`	Username Validation with minimum and maximum characters	2 inputs: `MIN_CHARS` and `MAX_CHARS`
15	`!exturl`	Extract URLs from a string	N/A
16	`!getiever`	Get the current Internet Explorer Version being used	N/A
17	`!valimage`	Validate image filenames (Remove/ADD extensions as required)	N/A
18	`!valcityabbr`	Validate City Names (Or any words) with First 2 letters abbreviated (Ex: India, IN)	N/A
19	`!valusphone`	US Phone Number Validation	N/A
20	`!valssn`	Social Security Number Validation	N/A
21	`!valhtmlcont`	Verify if the given string contains content between the provided html tags (Ex: `<p>Hello</p>`)	1 input: `tag_name` for the HTML Tag you want to search for
22	`!valhtmltag`	Validates if the given string has either a opening or closing HTML tag (Does not verify if the HTML Tag exists)	N/A
23	`!valtwitter`	Twitter Username Validation	N/A
24	`!valurl`	URL Validation	N/A
25	`!valgooglesyn`	Google Search Syntax Validation	N/A
26	`!extcssmedia`	Extract properties and values from CSS Media Queries	N/A
27	`!exthtmlcomms`	Strip all comments from a HTML Code Block	N/A
28	`!extcss`	Extract Individual CSS Properties from the given Code Block	N/A
29	`!extytid`	Extract Video ID from a valid Youtube Video Link	N/A
30	`!extimgsrc`	Extract image source links from HTML Image Tags	N/A
31	`!valbase64`	Base64 String Validation	N/A
32	`!septhousand`	Seperates the digits in the string to thousand with commas	N/A
33	`!valchars`	Validate if the the string contains atleast one occurrence of the Character to be searched	1 Input: `chars_to_be_searched`
34	`!valspaces`	Convert multiple spaces to single spaces between each word in a string	N/A
35	`!extsqrbracks`	Extract Square Brackets and the content between them	N/A
36	`!valalpnum`	Non-Alphanumeric Characters Validation	N/A
37	`!extlogs`	Extract native Javascript console and AngularJS $log log warn or info that are NOT comments / commented out	N/A
38	`!extbrackscont`	Extract all brackets and the content between them	N/A
39	`!addlinktag`	Adds Link Tags to all the strings that start with http or https (Full Function Provided)	N/A
40	`!findocurrences`	Provides a function to calculate the number of times the provided character(s) have appeared in the string (Returns 0 when no ocurrences found)	2 Inputs: `string` on which the match should be applied and `string_to_search` for the string to be searched for
41	`!valuuidv1`	UUID v1 Validation	N/A
42	`!valuuidv2`	UUID v2 Validation	N/A
43	`!valuuidv3`	UUID v3 Validation	N/A
44	`!valuuidv4`	UUID v4 Validation	N/A
45	`!valuuidv5`	UUID v5 Validation	N/A
46	`!extquotes`	Extracts any text between quotations (Works with nested quotes too)	N/A
47	`!splitnchunks`	Splits the given string to n-sized chunks even if its size is not an exact multiple	1 Input: `end_size` for chunk size
48	`!valzip`	Zip Code(5 or 9 digits only) Validation	N/A
49	`!valendswith`	Check if the provided string ends with the given Character	1 Input: `character` which the string should end with
50	`!extdomain`	Extract the domain from a valid URL string	N/A
51	`!tocamel`	Returns a function which converts the given string to camelCase	1 Input: `string` to be replaced

Installation

Install Visual Studio Code 1.10.0 or higher
Launch Code
From the command palette Ctrl-Shift-P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd-Shift-P (OSX)
Select Install Extension
Choose the extension
Reload Visual Studio Code

Contribution

Any and every contribution to this repoitory is welcomed, if you would like to add new features, file a bug report or make contribution, please first create an issue using the appropriate template.

Author

Monish Basaniwal