I have a textbox and a regular expression validator applied to it. I want to make sure that the only allowed string inputted into the textbox are "Anything Entered" or "Something Else" or "Another String" otherwise I want an error to be displayed.
This is the regular expression I have so far:
ValidationExpression="(^Anything Entered)$|(^Something Else)$ |(^Another String)$"
However when I enter the supposed valid strings the error is displayed. I cant figure out whats wrong with the expression. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The RegularExpressionValidator automatically adds those ^ and $. Just use
"(Anything Entered|something Else|Another String)"
"^(Anything Entered)|(Something Else)|(Another String)$"
Note the use of ^ and $.
Although, as others have already pointed out, using ^ $ is redundant here.
"(Anything Entered|Something Else|Another String)" is just fine.
(^Anything Entered)$|(^Something Else)$ |(^Another String)$
In regex ^ matches the beginning of the string and $ matches the end of the string.
Your regex is equivalent to (^Anything Entered$)|(^Something Else$ )|(^Another String$). It matches "Anything Entered" or "Another String" but it doesn't match "Something Else" because there can't be a space after the end of the string ($ ).
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In my requirement a Textbox should allow Alphabets,Numeric s, Special Characters,Special Symbols With at least one Alphabet.
I will try like this but i am not getting.
^\d*[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9#*,$._&% -!><^#]*$
You may want to have 2 regular expression validators; one for validating the allowed characters, and one for validating that at least on alphabet has been provided. You may be able to get at least one, but this way, you can have two separate validation messages to show the user explaining why the input is wrong.
Just match for special characters until you encounter a letter, then match for everything until the end of the string:
^[0-9#*,$._&% -!><^#]*[a-zA-Z0-9#*,$._&% -!><^#]*$
Use lookaheads :
/^(?=.*[a-zA-Z])[\w#*,$.&%!><^#-]*$/
Edit :
I assume the - is meant as the actual - character and not a range of space to !.
I removed the space character. You can of course add it if you want.
[ -!]
Effectively means :
[ -!] # Match a single character in the range between “ ” and “!”
And I have no idea what that range entails!
Can anybody tell me how to write a regular expression for "no quotes (single or double) allowed and only single hyphens allowed"? For example, "good", 'good', good--looking are not allowed (but good-looking is).
I need put this regex like following:
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="revProductName" runat="server"
ErrorMessage="Can not have " or '." Font-Size="Smaller"
ControlToValidate="txtProductName"
ValidationExpression="^[^'|\"]*$"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
The one I have is for double and single quotes. Now I need add multiple hyphens in there. I put like this "^[^'|\"|--]*$", but it is not working.
^(?:-(?!-)|[^'"-]++)*$
should do.
^ # Start of string
(?: # Either match...
-(?!-) # a hyphen, unless followed by another hyphen
| # or
[^'"-]++ # one or more characters except quotes/hyphen (possessive match)
)* # any number of times
$ # End of string
So, the regexp has to fail when ther is ', or ", or --.
So, the regexp should try this in every position, and if it's found, then fail:
^(?:(?!['"]|--).)*$
The idea is to consume all the line with ., but to check before using . each time that it not ', or ", or the beginning of --.
Also, I like the other answer very much. It uses a bit different approach. It consumes only non-'" symbols ([^'"]), and if it consumes -, it check if it's not followed by another -.
Also, there could be one more approach of searching for ', or ", or -- in the string, and then failing the regex if they are found. I could be achieved by using regex conditional expression. But this flavor of regex engine doesn't seem to support such kind of conditions.
I created the register form in asp.net. And I want to validate Name. This is not included special characters especially '#' character. I used a regular expression validator. I wrote in ValidationExpression that is ^[A-Za-z0-9.'-_\s]+$. It is OK special characters exact '#' character. How to correct regexp. Please help me.
'-_ means every character between ' and _, which includes a large number of characters.
You should escape the - by writing \-.
When I have an Expression declared like
someText = Regex.Replace(someText, #"/*.*?*/", "");
The Error Says
System.ArgumentException: par"/*.*?*/"
parsing - Nested quantifier *.
How to rewrite the code to avoid this error?
It doesn't like that you have this: ?*
This basically translates to "zero or one of the previous expression zero or more times" which seems a little odd. I'm pretty sure that's the same thing as saying "zero or more times". Can you explain what you are trying to do in more detail?
I suspect that if you change your regex to this it will do what you want:
(/*.*)*/
Maybe what is needed is a verbal description or sample of what you are trying to match. Here is my guess of what you want. I just added an escape for the "?" character.
string someText = Regex.Replace(someText, #"/*.*\?*/", "");
It appears you're trying to parse /* */ style comments. You may wish to try a regex like:
someText = Regex.Replace(someText, #"/\*.*\*/", "");
This ensures that your * are escaped as actual characters.
Here is a good site to test your regular expressions without much trouble:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html
I hope this will help a bit.
I have an ASP.NET website with a regular expression validator text box.
I have changed the expression in the regular expression validation property "validator expression" and after compiling (rebuild) and running, the validation CHANGEs are not reflecting.
The previous validation is working fine but the changed validation is not working.
Please help me!
edit:
First code:
([a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+)\#((base.co.uk)|(base.com)|(group.com))
Second code:
#"([a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+)#((base\.co\.uk)|(base\.com)|(group\.com)|(arg\.co\.uk)|(arggroup\.com))"
Assuming your "first code" is a literal regex, you need to escape the hyphen in the character class with a backslash.
Your "second code" is a regex formatted as a C# verbatim string that will match an email address such as whatever#base.co.uk just fine. There is nothing wrong with this regex.
You'll have to post the code in which you are using this regex if it doesn't work the way you want.
In this part: [a-zA-Z0-9_\-.] you are escaping the hyphen. The proper way to put a hyphen in a regex character class is in first position (or it thinks it is part of a range):
[-a-zA-Z0-9_.]
Then you removed the backslash from before the #. In Perl the # would be taken as part of a list name, but in C# I am not sure what effect it would have to not escape it.
The escaping of the periods is also suspect. You might need to double them up: e.g. \\. Instead, what I would do for a period is use a character class: i.e. [.] Inside the character class the period loses its special meaning.
Try this:
#"([-a-zA-Z0-9_.]+)\#((base[.]co[.]uk)|(base[.]com)|(group[.]com)|(arg[.]co[.]uk)|(arggroup[.]com))"