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JohnCrown
JohnCrown

Reputation: 25

Regular expression 2 digits 10 letters/digits

I'm trying to make a regular expression, but something isn't working for me, the requirements are the following:

  1. Min length is 1
  2. Max length is 12
  3. The first 2 symbols must be numbers
  4. Next 10 must be either letters or numbers

This is what I have so far

/^[0-9]{0,2}[a-z][A-Z][0-9]{0,10}$/

Can you guys tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1270

Answers (1)

The fourth bird
The fourth bird

Reputation: 163217

Your pattern ^[0-9]{0,2}[a-z][A-Z][0-9]{0,10}$ matches 0, 1 or 2 digits at the start.

Then it matches 2 chars [a-z][A-Z] being a lowercase and an uppercase char A-Z which should be present in the string, and also makes the string length at least 2 chars.

You can make the second digit optional, and use 1 character class for the letters or numbers.

The length then has a minumum of 1, and a maximum of 12.

^(?!\d[a-zA-Z])\d\d?[a-zA-Z0-9]{0,10}$
  • ^ Start of string
  • (?!\d[a-zA-Z]) negative lookahead, assert not a digit followed by a-zA-Z
  • \d\d? Match 1 or 2 digits
  • [a-zA-Z0-9]{0,10} Match 0-10 repetitions of any of the listed ranges
  • $ End of string

Regex demo

Or a version withtout a lookahead as suggested by @Scratte in the comments, matching a single digit and optionally a second digit followed by 0-10 repetitions of the listed ranges:

^\d(?:\d[A-Za-z\d]{0,10})?$

Regex demo

Upvotes: 2

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