RegexLibrary:Wikka

Regular Expression Library

See also
ValidPageNames Pagename validation

This is a draft proposal for central library of regular expressions to be used by core methods for validation/recognition purposes.
(stub)

lib/regex.inc

/**
* Wikka Regular Expression Library
*
* Defines patterns and regular expressions to be used by core methods for categorizing and validating strings.
*
* @package RegEx
* @version $id$
*/

//character sets
define('PATTERN_LCLETTER', 'a-z\xe0-\xf6\xf8-\xff');
define('PATTERN_UCLETTER', 'A-Z\xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xdf');
define('PATTERN_LETTER', PATTERN_LCLETTER.PATTERN_UCLETTER);
define('PATTERN_DIGIT', '0-9');

//stub

Patterns already in use

URI components

/^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?/

(source: RFC3986)

Valid WikiName `(as of 1.1.6.0)`

/^[A-ZÄÖÜ]+[a-zßäöü]+[A-Z0-9ÄÖÜ][A-Za-z0-9ÄÖÜßäöü]*$/s

Proposed RE for valid WikiName

define('PATTERN_LCLETTER', 'a-z\xe0-\xf6\xf8-\xff');
define('PATTERN_UCLETTER', 'A-Z\xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xdf');
define('PATTERN_LETTER', PATTERN_LCLETTER.PATTERN_UCLETTER);
define('PATTERN_DIGIT', '0-9');
$validtag = '/^['.PATTERN_LETTER.']['.PATTERN_LETTER.PATTERN_DIGIT.']+$/';