User:Pathoschild/Regex

Pathoschild[ userspace map ] (Regex patterns)

This is a repository of observed patterns useful to Pathosbot or other automated scripts.

Authors

Dates

Description	Determine whether an author is living or dead, and extract the birth and death dates.
Notes	These patterns are based on observations only, and have not been tested.
Possible tasks	Compare death dates with license tags to find outdated tags. List formerly living authors that may be dead now. Categorise authors by date or era.
Required bot capabilities	Singleline mode (all text treated as one line) If (perform a given pattern only if a condition is met) Greedy mode (match as much as regex permits)
Logic and patterns	base regex: {{author[^}]+dates[^=]*=[^\|}]* + regex + [^\|]+\|[^}]+}} Dead ($1 century): ([0-9]+)[^\|]*century Else dead, $1 to $2: ([0-9\?\-]{3,4})[^\|]*([0-9\?\-]{3,4}) Else living, $1: b.\s*([0-9\?\-]{4}) Else dead, $1 to $2 (fuzzy regex may match month/days): ([0-9\?\-]{1,2})[^\|]*([0-9\?\-]{1,2}) Else probably living ($1): ([0-9]{4}) Else unknown or unspecified.