Regex Snippets

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

Check it out here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Monish.regexsnippets

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.

How Does It Work?

Method 1

1. From the command palette Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Shift+P (OSX)
2. Type Insert Snippet then select Insert Snippet
3. Type ! and you will get the list of available snippets

Method 2

1. In the editor, type ! then hit Ctrl+Space
2. Select the snippet you want, eg: !addlinktag

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 given 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
52	!valjwt	Validates if the given string is a valid JSON Web Token (JWT)	N/A
53	!valjson	Validates if the given string is a valid Non-array JSON	N/A
54	!valspecialusername	Validates if the given string is in the form of test@test	N/A
55	!multispace	Replaces all the spaces in the given string with a single space	N/A
56	!nonalphanumeric	Replaces all the non-alphanumeric characters in the given string with a single space	N/A
57	!blankline	Validates if the given string is blank line	N/A
58	!positiveint	Checks if the given string is a valid positive integer	N/A
59	!positivedecimal	Validates if the given string is a valid positive decimal	N/A
60	!positivedecimal1	Validates if the given string is a valid positive decimal with a single decimal digit	N/A
61	!ssn	Validates if the given string is a valid Social Security Number	N/A
62	!valdate	Validate if the given string is a valid date	N/A
63	!replacefont	Replaces all the font tags in the given string with a single space	N/A

Installation

Requires VS Code Version 1.20.0 atleast

1. Install Visual Studio Code 1.10.0 or higher
2. Launch Code
3. From the command palette Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Shift+P (OSX)
4. Select Install Extension
5. Choose the extension
6. Reload Visual Studio Code
7. Optionally find the extension file here , launch VS Code , Goto the extensions tab click the 3 dots on top, Click install from VSIX File, Choose the downloaded file and done!

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