CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user671460
user671460

Reputation: 21

Regular Expression to limit characters to 5000

I need a regular expression to simply limit the number of characters in a textarea to 5000. If there are more secure regular expressions I could use, I am open to suggestions.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5941

Answers (2)

Staffan Nöteberg
Staffan Nöteberg

Reputation: 4145

You will always get the job done with:

^[\s\S]{0,5000}$

  • First there´s a character class that says: match whitespace (\s) or non-whitespace (\S) -- i.e any possible character
  • Repeat that between zero and 5000 times.

Upvotes: 4

Wooble
Wooble

Reputation: 90007

^.{0,5000}$ should work. Although using a regular expression for this is probably an odd choice.

Upvotes: 8

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