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brain storm
brain storm

Reputation: 31252

regex for strings with special characters at end

I want a regex for string with 6-12 characters long, start with number, followed by anything and end with non-alpabet and non-number. i have this, but this does not work. Any help here? examples are 123abc$$, 2%fat?, 4ever!@

^[0-9](?=.*)[^a-z0-9]{6,12}$

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (1)

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 780724

Don't use a lookahead, because it doesn't consume characters, it just requires the regular expression to be next to that. You also don't need 6-12 non-alphanumerics, that's only the last character.

^\d.{4,10}[^a-z\d]$

Upvotes: 4

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