my problem is very minor but I can't resolve it.
I have 2 facebook url's:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Name_Of_Page/ID_OF_PAGE
http://www.facebook.com/Name_Of_Page
And I need to extract only the name by using NSRegularExpression.
This is my code:
NSRegularExpression* FBregex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:#"((http|https)://)?([w]{3}\\.)?(facebook\\.com/(pages/)?)" options:0 error:&error];
NSString *result=[FBregex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:STRING_TO_EVALUATE options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [STRING_TO_EVALUATE length]) withTemplate:#""]
I need to remove the ID of the page to be shown. Any ideas?
thanks.
I've not used NSRegularExpressions before, but if it's Perl-Compatible, there are a couple of ways you can get to what you want.
This is a lookbehind method. Lookbehinds do not capture anything, they just mark a position, so the match starts with the character class and ends when it runs into a word boundary.
~(?<=pages/)[-A-Z0-9_.]+\b~i
This is a Forget Everything method. The \K tells the REGEX engine to require the pages/ to be there, but then forget it. So, it has the same effect of starting the capture at the character class and ending when it runs into a word boundary.
~pages/\K[-A-Z0-9_.]+\b~i
Both of these methods will only give you the name of the page.
Here is a demo
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Can any one suggest me how to use NSRegularExpression class in Xamarin iOS.
I am not able to use this in Xamarin Studio,
Looking for an equivalent method for the below one
NSArray* matches = [[NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:expression options:NSRegularExpressionDotMatchesLineSeparators error:nil] matchesInString:string options:0 range:range];
You can use the Regex.Matches(String,String,RegexOptions)
Searches the specified input string for all occurrences of a specified regular expression, using the specified matching options.
NSRegularExpressionDotMatchesLineSeparators is the same as an inline option (?s) that you can add to the beginning of your pattern, or use a RegexOptions.Singleline flag with Regex.Matches.
I am trying to ensure that the iOS app that I am working on is accessible and am trying to implement VoiceOver to ensure this.
One strange thing that I cannot find any help for is when the Touch ID view is displayed (in my case for signing into the app). VoiceOver pronounces ID as a word and not I.D.
I have tried implementing the accessibility attributes to both NSString and the LAContext object but neither seem to change what is read out by VoiceOver. Code snippets below:
LAContext *context = [[LAContext alloc] init];
[context setIsAccessibilityElement:YES];
[context setAccessibilityLabel:#"TEST 2"];
NSError *error = nil;
NSString *label = #"Please authenticate your ID using the Touch ID";
[label setIsAccessibilityElement:YES];
[label setAccessibilityTraits:UIAccessibilityTraitStaticText];
[label setAccessibilityLabel:#"TEST"];
showingTouchID = TRUE;
if ([context canEvaluatePolicy:LAPolicyDeviceOwnerAuthenticationWithBiometrics error:&error]) {
[context evaluatePolicy:LAPolicyDeviceOwnerAuthenticationWithBiometrics
localizedReason:label
reply:^(BOOL success, NSError *error) {
......
The output from VoiceOver with or without context having the accessibility attributes is always the label text.
All help greatly appreciated :)
You should definitely not change the accessibility label just to make VoiceOver pronounce things correctly (i.e. do not try "hack" the label pronounciation). The reason is that VoiceOver does not have speech output only; it has also braille output where blind users expect to read things exactly letter-by-letter as they are written (i.e. see exactly all the spaces, capital/small letters, etc.) If you did e.g. write "I D" instead of "ID", then while VoiceOver would pronounce it perhaps correctly (in the specific version of iOS), blind users, after also reading "I D" on a braille display might think that that is how it is actually written and appear let's say non-professionally when they would then use this wrong spelling in written exchanges with other people.
The correct way to deal with this, albeit without giving you an immediate solution, is:
File a bug with Apple about pronounciation of the specific word with the specific voice in the specific language (e.g. "Expected pronounciation: [aj'di:]" vs. "Actual pronounciation: [id]")
File a bug with Apple to request the ability to customize pronunciation only (i.e. where you would leave the accessibility label intact and correct, but specify to the voice how it should pronounce certain part of the text), and where this customization could be done for each language individually by the translator translating the strings (because wrong pronunciation is language-specific) - also see the next point.
If you can reword, try different word than the problematic one (which seems not applicable in case of "Touch ID" which is a set term). But this is a hack too, as that solves only the English original and does not care about translations where the rewording might on the contrary potentially complicate the pronunciation.
Sorry for the bad news.
Finally, here, both on iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0.2, VoiceOver with default US English iOS voice, at least on this webpage, pronounces "ID" in "Touch ID" as [ajdi:], not [id].
You can try this for a quick work around: Just give space between I and D
NSString *label = #"Please authenticate your ID using the Touch ID";
label.accessibilityLabel=#"Please authenticate your I D using the Touch I D";
Also please note that you can only set accessibility to UIElements and you cannot set it to general variables. It doesn't make sense to set accessibility label for LAContext and to NSString.
YOu need to set the accessibility label to UILabel or the element which you give the NSString to.
Starting with iOS 11, you can set the element's accessibilityAttributedLabel and use the UIAccessibilitySpeechAttributeIPANotation key (Swift: NSAttributedString.Key.accessibilitySpeechIPANotation) to specify the pronunciation for a range of the attributed string.
See "Speech Attributes for Attributed Strings" for other tools you can use to tweak how VoiceOver reads your text.
I'm completely stumped on this one, and my complete lack of skill with regular expressions doesn't help.
Here is what I'm trying to achieve:
- I have multiple NSStrings that contain the text (and links) from blog posts that I've downloaded from a site online.
- I'm using a UIWebView with an HTML page I create on the fly so that I can have inline images, videos etc.
- The blog posts contain two types of YouTube link -
<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEOID" height="405" width="720" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe>
and
http://youtu.be/VIDEOID
There are two different types of URL because the blog uses Wordpress and Wordpress has automatic detection for YouTube links, meaning embeds aren't required. Also the first type of embed doesn't work because it relies on the browser being able to request either http or https (hence the lack of it in the URL there), that apparently doesn't work in UIWebViews.
Essentially what I want to do is find the VideoID from both types of URL, then take the existing URL out of the NSString and replace it with the correct embed type with the correct VideoID attached. I also need to keep the rest of the string intact. To top it all off, it needs to work through multiple URLs in the same NSString, as there are an unknown number of videos per post.
This is the code I have so far, but I know it's horribly wrong and I'm not achieving what I want:
NSString *regexToReplaceRawLinks = #"(https?://)?(www\\.)?(youtu\\.be/|youtube\\.com)?(/|/embed/|/v/|/watch\\?v=|/watch\\?.+&v=)([\\w_-]{11})(&.+)?";
NSError *error = NULL;
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:regexToReplaceRawLinks
options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive
error:&error];
NSString *modifiedString = [regex stringByReplacingMatchesInString:string
options:0
range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])
withTemplate:#"<iframe width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/$1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>"];
NSLog(#"%#", modifiedString);
return modifiedString;
I would be extremely grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction, particularly with the regex's
Assuming // can be the start of your url(as you have shown in your example), you can try this regex:
(?:https?:)?//(?:[^.]*\.)?youtu(?:\.be|be\.com)(?:/|/embed/|/v/|/watch/?\?(?:.+&)?v=)([\w-]{11})
Just escape \ with \\ from above if you need.
I'm looking for a easy way to validate state and zip code (U.S Only). Obviously there are many ways that this can be done. I have zip code:
- (BOOL)validateZipCode
{
bool returnValue = false;
NSString *zipcodeExpression = #"^[0-9]{5}(-/d{4})?$"; //U.S Zip ONLY!!!
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:zipcodeExpression options:0 error:NULL];
NSTextCheckingResult *match = [regex firstMatchInString:ZipCodeTextField.text options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [ZipCodeTextField.text length])];
if (match)
{
returnValue = true;
}
return returnValue;
}
Would it be common to just have a list of all the states and abbreviations and just compare the user input to check for a match? This just seems like a lot.
I guess I'm looking for alternatives. I also heard of some frameworks that when a user inputs a zip code, the city and state are then auto generated. Does anyone know of any alternatives like this?
I simple plist file in your app preloaded with the state names and abbreviations is trivial enough. Your regular expression will validate that a string represents a valid zip code.
If you need to actually verify that the zip code and the state match, that will take a lot more data.
A quick google search should reveal some web services you may be able to use to get a state from a zip code. Zip codes change (at least new ones added) on occasion. You may be able to provide a state/zip code database file in your app. But you will need a way to update the database once in a while without needing to submit an update of your app.
Update: A quick look at the Wikipedia Zip Code page reveals that some zip codes span more than one state.
I have an html code stored in a string. Now I want to extract one of the images from the source code.
I was earlier using REgExKitLite but according to this link http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/288966-applications-using-regexkitlite-no-longer-being-accepted-at-the-appstore.html , it's suggested not to use REgExKitLite if we want to submit my app to app store.
I just need a very simple implementation to extract one string from another using regEx. Most of the other SO solutions are trying to achieve pretty complex tasks and hence its difficult to understand for a beginner like me.
Even a good tutorial link(about NSRegularExpression implementation) will do. I really dont mind reading it and learning the basics as long as the tutorial is simple and clear. Thnx!
In iOS 4.0+, you can use NSRegularExpression:
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:#"stack(.*).html" options:0 error:NULL];
NSString *str = #"stackoverflow.html";
NSTextCheckingResult *match = [regex firstMatchInString:str options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, [str length])];
// [match rangeAtIndex:1] gives the range of the group in parentheses
// [str substringWithRange:[match rangeAtIndex:1]] gives the first captured group in this example
You can follow this reference to get more solutions.