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it will check for alphanumeric (Alpha Numeric) values.

Specifier Format of Guid Values that this RegEx supports: 32 digits: [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 32 digits separated by hyphens: [xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx] 32 digits separated by hyphens, enclosed in brackets: [{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}] 32 digits separated by hyphens, enclosed in parentheses: [(xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)]

Well it pretty much accepts all kinds of users, about the domain i didn't write it special for any TLD so there's no length defined, ohh and it accepts some IDN stuff

Spam Stopper

This pattern returns as much of the first x characters of a string as full words or sentences as a match, where x is currently 20. Change x to adjust the length supported in your database field. I'm currently using this within a string shortening utility to shrink large text regions to word/sentance-boundary elements and appending an ellipsis as a text continuator.

This expression will match all of the commands(escape codes) used in ANSI files. These are what were used to create the colors/blocks on BBS's for those of us that once dialed into them. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code has a reference for ANSI escape codes. http://idledreams.net/lordscarlet/posts/153.aspx shows an example of the engine I have created surrounding the expression

Heres my sql clause parser regexp for recordset filtering. Does recursive query parsing all by its self. Only problem I cant figure is how to match comma separated lists of quoted strings. Tell me if you figure out how! The unicodes in the re was put in by the entry form please replace them with their ascii equivalents to use it.

"Starts with but does not end with." I needed a pattern to require certain first (and optional middle) names, but to fail for certain last names. So if Bob, John, and Mary are acceptable first names but the White's are always rejected then...

Credit card validator Works for switch card numbers too Switch card bit is (\d{6}[-\s]?\d{12}) Credit card bit is (\d{4}[-\s]?\d{4}[-\s]?\d{4}[-\s]?\d{4}) I use this as a client side test before running a more comprehensive server side check.

UK vehicle registration system prior to September 2001. Allows both older suffix and the later prefix formats in simple form, with optional spaces.

Trim Inside. This pattern can be used with a replace value of "$1 " to remove multiple consecutive spaces between characters and replace with a single space. Trailing and leading spaces are NOT altered.

UK vehicle registration system. This is the obvious combination of two previous expressions posted here, to merge the older system with the current system.

Password matching expression. Password must be at least 8 characters, no more than 15 characters, and must include at least one upper case letter, one lower case letter, and one numeric digit.

Example of a regular expression that can be used to parse a comma delimited string into constituent, named sub-strings. Add or remove regex subfield definitions (?<field1>[^,]+) and corresponding delimiting characters in the regular expression as necessary to accommodate the string and subfields you intend to parse. Optionally, rename the subfield names in the regular expression to more meaningful names if you are using the parsed sub-strings in a program. Replace all occurrences of the comma in the regular expression with any required alternative delimiting character. As long as the delimiting character used does not occur naturally in any of the sub-strings, you should be good-to-go. NOTE: To change the delimiter character you must replace all occurrences of the comma in the current regex (of which there are 5) with the new delimiter character. e.g. (?<field1>[^;]+); changes the delimiter character to a semi-colon for the first field.

UK National Insurance Number (NINo) validation. The following modifications have been made: The first letter may not be D, F, I, Q, U or Z; the second letter may not be D, F, I, O, Q, U or Z; the final letter is optional.

I built this expression to test a string in ASP for valid username and password constraints. It can be adapted for any number of scenerios. For instance in this case, we needed to ensure the username someone wanted was not all numbers or all letters and was 6-15 characters in length with no special characters. This expression tests negatively for all number cases, then all letter cases, and lastly tests for only alphanumeric characters in the required range. In other words: the match must be alphanumeric with at least one number, one letter, and be between 6-15 character in length.

This regex validates U.S. social security numbers, within the range of numbers that have been currently allocated.

Used to validate Credit Card numbers, Checks if it contains 16 numbers in groups of 4 separated by -, ,or nothing

Used to verify that the string consists of only A-z, 0 - 9 and underscore. Several words allowed, only one space between them. No spaces up front. Hey, I know it's easy, but it was not in the library! Plus, the test option here is not working well all the time.

Incorporated other people's examples; removed extraneous parenthesis on 10/7/04. Currently the SSA site says 772 is the highest AREA number generated (http://www.ssa.gov/employer/highgroup.txt). Old expression was: (^|\s)\d{3}(-?|[\. ])\d{2}\2\d{4}($|\s|[;:,!\.\?]). Looks for either the beginning of a line or whitespace before the beginning of the social security number, then either zero or one hyphen OR one of a period or space, then uses the \3 to reference the value returned in the parenthesis that includes the -?|[\. ] (basically says if the first dash, period, or space is there, then the second one is required; and if the first dash, period, or space is not there, then the second one can't be either), and finally looks for the end of a line, whitespace, or punctuation characters after the social security number.