How to extract youtube video id from a URL in Lua - string

I need to extract youtube video id (e.g., brSU-lAACiA) from URL below that is in a Lua string variable.
local string = "a:2:{s:8:\"td_video\";s:60:\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brSU-lAACiA&feature=autoshare\";s:13:\"td_last_video\";s:60:\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brSU-lAACiA&feature=autoshare\";}"
What should be the pattern?

I think I got it.
local string = "a:2:{s:8:\"td_video\";s:60:\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brSU-lAACiA&feature=autoshare\";s:13:\"td_last_video\";s:60:\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brSU-lAACiA&feature=autoshare\";}"
pattern = "v=(...........)"
local vidid = string.match(string, pattern)
There are 11 dots because Youtube video ID are only 11 characters. I'm not expert in making these patterns, so if there are other easier and shorter methods please share them with me.

Your own solution works fine, but time may come that Youtube decides to use video id that is not exactly 11 characters, this is an alternative solution for you:
local vidid = string.match(string, "%?v=(.-)&")
The pattern "%?v=(.-)&" matches a character ?, follows by v= and 0 or more characters after, then ends with &. The characters between v= and & are captured, note the use of - for non-greedy match.

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How can I transform RegEx categories into plain RegEx?

This question is based on this question. During coding, I got some new things popping up and because the initial question is properly answered, I want to describe my issues in this question.
My goal is to have a RegEx which filters out everything, instead of some special requirements:
Alphanumeric allowed
non-Lating e.g. Chinese or Japanese allowed
.,-?!"'=$|<>[]{} allowed
Works with NodeJS 8.9.4
During implementation of the answer from the main question, I've found out, that this only works with newer Node versions (because of the supported ES version). Sadly, our project runs on 8.9.4 which can't be changed in any way. So upgrading is not an option.
I've started searching around and found this page: https://github.com/slevithan/xregexp/blob/master/tools/output/categories.js
With the help of another question, I've tried to build something together which matches my requirements. I came out with:
/[^\(?:[A-Za-z\xAA\xB5\xBA\xC0-\xD6\xD8-\xF6\xF8-\u02C1\u02C6-\u02D1\u02E0-\u02E4\u02EC\u02EE\u0370-\u0374\u0376\u0377\u037A-\u037D\u037F\u0386\u0388-\u038A\u038C\u038E-\u03A1\u03A3-\u03F5\u03F7-\u0481\u048A-\u052F\u0531-\u0556\u0559\u0560-\u0588\u05D0-\u05EA\u05EF-\u05F2\u0620-\u064A\u066E\u066F\u0671-\u06D3\u06D5\u06E5\u06E6\u06EE\u06EF\u06FA-\u06FC\u06FF\u0710\u0712-\u072F\u074D-\u07A5\u07B1\u07CA-\u07EA\u07F4\u07F5\u07FA\u0800-\u0815\u081A\u0824\u0828\u0840-\u0858\u0860-\u086A\u0870-\u0887\u0889-\u088E\u08A0-\u08C9\u0904-\u0939\u093D\u0950\u0958-\u0961\u0971-\u0980\u0985-\u098C\u098F\u0990\u0993-\u09A8\u09AA-\u09B0\u09B2\u09B6-\u09B9\u09BD\u09CE\u09DC\u09DD\u09DF-\u09E1\u09F0\u09F1\u09FC\u0A05-\u0A0A\u0A0F\u0A10\u0A13-\u0A28\u0A2A-\u0A30\u0A32\u0A33\u0A35\u0A36\u0A38\u0A39\u0A59-\u0A5C\u0A5E\u0A72-\u0A74\u0A85-\u0A8D\u0A8F-\u0A91\u0A93-\u0AA8\u0AAA-\u0AB0\u0AB2\u0AB3\u0AB5-\u0AB9\u0ABD\u0AD0\u0AE0\u0AE1\u0AF9\u0B05-\u0B0C\u0B0F\u0B10\u0B13-\u0B28\u0B2A-\u0B30\u0B32\u0B33\u0B35-\u0B39\u0B3D\u0B5C\u0B5D\u0B5F-\u0B61\u0B71\u0B83\u0B85-\u0B8A\u0B8E-\u0B90\u0B92-\u0B95\u0B99\u0B9A\u0B9C\u0B9E\u0B9F\u0BA3\u0BA4\u0BA8-\u0BAA\u0BAE-\u0BB9\u0BD0\u0C05-\u0C0C\u0C0E-\u0C10\u0C12-\u0C28\u0C2A-\u0C39\u0C3D\u0C58-\u0C5A\u0C5D\u0C60\u0C61\u0C80\u0C85-\u0C8C\u0C8E-\u0C90\u0C92-\u0CA8\u0CAA-\u0CB3\u0CB5-\u0CB9\u0CBD\u0CDD\u0CDE\u0CE0\u0CE1\u0CF1\u0CF2\u0D04-\u0D0C\u0D0E-\u0D10\u0D12-\u0D3A\u0D3D\u0D4E\u0D54-\u0D56\u0D5F-\u0D61\u0D7A-\u0D7F\u0D85-\u0D96\u0D9A-\u0DB1\u0DB3-\u0DBB\u0DBD\u0DC0-\u0DC6\u0E01-\u0E30\u0E32\u0E33\u0E40-\u0E46\u0E81\u0E82\u0E84\u0E86-\u0E8A\u0E8C-\u0EA3\u0EA5\u0EA7-\u0EB0\u0EB2\u0EB3\u0EBD\u0EC0-\u0EC4\u0EC6\u0EDC-\u0EDF\u0F00\u0F40-\u0F47\u0F49-\u0F6C\u0F88-\u0F8C\u1000-\u102A\u103F\u1050-\u1055\u105A-\u105D\u1061\u1065\u1066\u106E-\u1070\u1075-\u1081\u108E\u10A0-\u10C5\u10C7\u10CD\u10D0-\u10FA\u10FC-\u1248\u124A-\u124D\u1250-\u1256\u1258\u125A-\u125D\u1260-\u1288\u128A-\u128D\u1290-\u12B0\u12B2-\u12B5\u12B8-\u12BE\u12C0\u12C2-\u12C5\u12C8-\u12D6\u12D8-\u1310\u1312-\u1315\u1318-\u135A\u1380-\u138F\u13A0-\u13F5\u13F8-\u13FD\u1401-\u166C\u166F-\u167F\u1681-\u169A\u16A0-\u16EA\u16F1-\u16F8\u1700-\u1711\u171F-\u1731\u1740-\u1751\u1760-\u176C\u176E-\u1770\u1780-\u17B3\u17D7\u17DC\u1820-\u1878\u1880-\u1884\u1887-\u18A8\u18AA\u18B0-\u18F5\u1900-\u191E\u1950-\u196D\u1970-\u1974\u1980-\u19AB\u19B0-\u19C9\u1A00-\u1A16\u1A20-\u1A54\u1AA7\u1B05-\u1B33\u1B45-\u1B4C\u1B83-\u1BA0\u1BAE\u1BAF\u1BBA-\u1BE5\u1C00-\u1C23\u1C4D-\u1C4F\u1C5A-\u1C7D\u1C80-\u1C88]+/g
My current example string is:
Test=😕查看
°°^ Marting 10202029 Offline!"§$%&/()!"§$%&/()After this we want to keep the allowed special chars: .,-?!"'=$|<>[]{}
Somehow, the answer from the first question works better as the parsed categories from me. So there must be something wrong, which I'm unable to find.
At the end, I want to put everything inside a var.replace() command, to replace everything bad with a single whitespace.
For testing, I'm using: https://regexr.com/
You can either use regexpu to transpile the regex into an ES6-compliant regex, or you may go to the Unicode Utilities: UnicodeSet page and get the code point ranges manually.
In your case, paste [^\p{L}\p{N}] into the Input field, check Abbreviate and Escape, then click Show Set. Add the .,?!"'=$|<>[\]{}- at the end of the character class. Then, double the backslashes (also, escape the ' or ", your string literal delimiter char, I escaped ' below) and put inside the pattern_from_uu variable definition in this JavaScript code and then, all you need to define the regex is const reg = new RegExp(pattern, "gu") or const reg = new RegExp(pattern, "u"):
const pattern_from_uu = 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let pattern = pattern_from_uu.replace(/\\U000([a-f\d]+)/gi, "\\u{$1}");
console.log("Your regex is:\n/" + pattern + "/gu");
const texts = ["Test=😕查看","°°^ Marting 10202029 Offline!\"§$%&/()!\"§$%&/()After this we want to keep the allowed special chars: .,-?!\"'=$|<>[]{}"];
const reg = new RegExp(pattern, "gu")
for (const text of texts) {
console.log(text.replace(reg, ""));
}
See the generated regex demo.

Use RegEx in Python to extract URL and optional query string from web server log data

Disclosure: very much a regex newbie, so I'm trying to tweak some example code I found which parses web server log data into named groups. The snippet of my modified regex thus far that deals with the URL and query string groups:
(?P<url>.+)(?P<querystr>\?.*)
This works just fine when the string against which it's applied actually does have a query string on the URL (each group gets the expected bit of the string) but fails to match if there is none. So I tried adding a '?' after the "querystr" group to indicate that it was optional, i.e. (?P<querystr>\?.*)? ... if there's no query string then it works as expected (nothing is extracted into querystr), but when there is one, it is still extracted as part of url rather than separately into querystr.
What's the best way to identify optional groups (assuming that's even the right approach in this case)? Thanks in advance.
You can use
^(?P<url>[^?]+)(?P<querystr>\?.*)?$
Details
^ - start of string
(?P<url>[^?]+) - Group "url": any one or more chars other than ?
(?P<querystr>\?.*)? - an optional Group "querystr": a ? char and then any zero or more chars other than line break chars as many as possible
$ - end of string.
See the regex demo.

How can I remove all characters inside angle brackets python?

How can I remove all characters inside angle brackets including the brackets in a string? How can I also remove all the text between ("\r\n") and ("."+"any 3 characters") Is this possible? I am currently using the solution by #xkcdjerry
e.g
body = """Dear Students roads etc. you place a tree take a snapshot, then when you place a\r\nbuilding, take a snapshot. Place at least 5-6 objects and then have 5-6\r\nsnapshots. Please keep these snapshots with you as everyone will be asked\r\nto share them during the class.\r\n\r\nI am attaching one PowerPoint containing instructions and one video of\r\nexplanation for your reference.\r\n\r\nKind regards,\r\nTeacher Name\r\n zoom_0.mp4\r\n<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UX-klOfVhbefvbhZvIWijaBdQuLgh_-Uru4_1QTkth/view?usp=drive_web>"""
d = re.compile("\r\n.+?\\....")
body = d.sub('', body)
a = re.compile("<.*?>")
body = a.sub('', body)
print(body)```
For some reason the output is fine except that it has:
```gle.com/file/d/1UX-klOfVhbefvbhZvIWijaBdQuLgh_-Uru4_1QTkth/view?usp=drive_web>
randomly attached to the end How can I fix it.
Answer
Your problem can be solved by a regex:
Put this into the shell:
import re
a=re.compile("<.*?>")
a.sub('',"Keep this part of the string< Remove this part>Keep This part as well")
Output:
'Keep this part of the stringKeep This part as well'
Second question:
import re
re.compile("\r\n.*?\\..{3}")
a.sub('',"Hello\r\nFilename.png")
Output:
'Hello'
Breakdown
Regex is a robust way of finding, replacing, and mutating small strings inside bigger ones, for further reading,consult https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html. Meanwhile, here are the breakdowns of the regex information used in this answer:
. means any char.
*? means as many of the before as needed but as little as possible(non-greedy match)
So .*? means any number of characters but as little as possible.
Note: The reason there is a \\. in the second regex is that a . in the match needs to be escaped by a \, which in its turn needs to be escaped as \\
The methods:
re.compile(patten:str) compiles a regex for farther use.
regex.sub(repl:str,string:str) replaces every match of regex in string with repl.
Hope it helps.

Enhancing String Literals Delimiters to Support Raw Text Swift

I recently found this code snippets on the Swift 5 Book.
print(#"Write an interpolated string in Swift using \(multiplier)."#)
// Prints "Write an interpolated string in Swift using \(multiplier).”
print(#"6 times 7 is \#(6 * 7)."#)
// Prints "6 times 7 is 42.”
I learnt it was an accepted proposal in Swift 5 for enhancing string literals delimiters to support raw text, with so many examples given.
My question is when and how is it used in practical cases because from the examples given above, I would still clearly achieve what I want to even without the # signs!
To give just one example where it is very useful. How about when writing Regex, previously it was a nightmare as you had to escape all special characters. E.g.
let regex1 = "\\\\[A-Z]+[A-Za-z]+\\.[a-z]+"
Can now be replaced with
let regex2 = #"\\[A-Z]+[A-Za-z]+\.[a-z]+"#
Much easier to write. Now when you find a regex online, you can just copy and paste it in without having to spend ages escaping special characters.
Edit:
Can read here
https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/162/how-to-use-raw-strings-in-swift

Groovy - characters loss with stream.getText

I have this Groovy script that I'm testing:
InputStream is = awsS3Stream.getObjectContent();
def lines = is.getText("UTF-8");
println "lines:"+lines;
Pattern pattern = ~/type\"\:\"[A-Z][a-z]*\"/;
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(lines);
...
I noticed that depending on the size of the awsS3Stream object, variable lines may not have all of the text - the end of it is missing. I was hoping that using StringBuffer instead of String would solve the issue, but it did not. I hope someone may know a Groovy based solution to it as I'm not terribly familiar with Groovy... much appreciate your time.
P.S The issues I'm seeing is not related to the pattern - I don't need pattern there to see that the variable lines doesn't always have all of the data.
Are you trying to match alphabetic strings with just one initial uppercase letter? If not, the problem is with your regexp. To match camel case strings with any number of capital letters, use this:
Pattern pattern = ~/type\"\:\"[A-Za-z]*\"/;
The issue was with the data going into s3, not how I retrieve it.

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