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AVADHESH PATEL4495 27-Dec-2012

In this article, I have described most important regular expression in our project. These described below with tile, expression and description.

Name

Expression:  ^([a-zA-Z]+(?:\.)?(?: [a-zA-Z]+(?:\.)?)*)$

 

Description:  It takes only alphabets with single dot operator. Not take space at beginning.  For example Mr. Jemsh Smith, Mark Bell etc.

Email

Expression: ^([0-9a-zA-Z]([-\.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*@([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9})$

 

Description:  It validates email address.

Alphanumeric Character

Expression:  ^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Za-z])[A-Za-z0-9]{1,10}$

 

Description: It takes combination of alphabets and numbers. Not allow special character and white space in beginning.

Number

Expression: ^\d+$

 

Description: It allow entered only numbers. For example 2561.

Integer

Expression: ^-{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+$

 

Description: It allow entered to integer values. For example -998, -198.00, 1700.00.

ZIP Code (Indian)

Expression: ^([1-9])([0-9]){5}$

 

Description: It allows entering Indian postal zip code. Indian postal zip code has six digits. For example 320001.

ZIP Code (US)

Expression: ^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$

 

Description: this expression validate for US based zip code.

Date (mm/dd/yyyy)

Expression: (0[1-9]|1[012])[ /](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[ /]([0-9]{4})

 

Description: Above expression take date in mm/dd/yyyy (month/date/year) format.

File Format (.doc, .docx, .pdf)

Expression: ^.+\.(([dD][oO][cC][xX])|([dD][oO][cC])|([pP][dD][fF])|([wW][pP][dD]))$

 

Description:  This expression allows only .doc, .docx (for ms word) and .pdf format.

Mobile Number (India)

Expression: ^[789]\d{9}$

 

Description: This expression allow to take 10 digit numeric vales, stating from 9,8,7 only.

Mobile Number (US)

Expression: ^(\(?[0-9]{3}\)?)?\-?[0-9]{3}\-?[0-9]{4}$


Description: This expression allows taking US format mobile number. For example 987-987-9876.

Password (Strongly Type)

Expression: ^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*\W)\S{6,15}$


Description: Above expression take minimum 6 digit and maximum 15 digit


characters in textbox with at least one Uppercase, one lowercase, one numeric


value and one special character.



Updated 30-Nov-2017
Avadhesh Kumar Patel District Project Manager - Aligarh 14 months work experience in Panchayati Raj Department Sector as District Project Manager & 12 months work experience in IT Sector as Software Engineer. :-)

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