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Pattern Title
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| Expression |
^([a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*()-_=+;:'"|~`<>?/{}]{1,5})$ |
| Description |
This Regular expression validates a string that contains all printable characters with a minimum length of 1 and maximum length of 5.
Obviously the min and max can be changed to meet the users needs.
^([a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*()-_=+;:'"|~`<>?/{}]{1,5})$ This is the string, I keep getting &amp;lt and other characters when I save it. |
| Matches |
ilove | $%*!_ | it |
| Non-Matches |
123456 | This is great |
| Author |
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Michael Matusiewicz
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Title: Works by accident
Name: Michael Ash
Date: 8/9/2004 4:44:16 PM
Comment:
This regex does work but not for the obvious reasons and modification isn't as simply as it looks. If you remove A-Z or 0-9 from this expression it will still match those characters.
What really happening is the portion of reg ')-_' is matching 55 characters, including uppercase letters, digits and some left out of the regex. See http://blogs.regexadvice.com/mash/archive/2004/06/17/1272.aspx if you don't understand why
Also ^[!-~]{1,5}$ accomplishes what the author intended.
Title: Works just as it says
Name: Stephen Rylander
Date: 8/9/2004 1:21:59 PM
Comment:
Simple to modify and use.
Title: Works
Name: Gerald P. Roston
Date: 12/1/2003 1:48:04 PM
Comment:
Works as it is supposed to
Title: Doesn't work
Name: Gerald P. Roston
Date: 12/1/2003 12:33:44 PM
Comment:
Will not flag entries that are too short as being invalid.
