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Notes:
Some more examples of regular expressions:
"i{5}"
only "iiiii" correct
"i{2,}"
only "ii", "iii", "iiii", ...
"i{,2}"
only "" "i" and "ii"
"^qwerty"
"qwerty" correct but not "aqwerty"
"qwerty$"
"qwerty" correct but not "qwertyu"
•
infix
notation:
Structure notation where the operator is located between the operands, e.g. (A+B).
•
postfix
notation:
Structure notation where the operator follows the operands, e.g. (A,B)-.
• *The upper limit for repetitions is set to 48. (This limitation does not apply if the
Edit-
able
attribute in the XML DTD is set to
NO
)
Example
Description
"0-9]{2}/0-9]{2}/0-9]{4}"
Date DD/MM/YYYY
"a-zA-Z]+)|(a-zA-Z]+.a-zA-Z]+)
@a-zA-Z]+.a-z]{2,3"
E-mail address
:
[email protected]
[email protected]
"(\(0-9]{3}\))?0-9]{3}
]{,1}0-9]{4}"
Telephone number
"(123) 123-1234"
"(123)1231234"
"(123) 123 1234"
"a-zA-Z ]+"
Name
:
"John Doe"
"John"
"0-9]{2} ?0-9]{3}"
ZIP code
"12345"
"12 345"
"(1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12):
0-9]{,2}(:0-9]{0,2})
?(AM|am|Am|PM|pm|Pm)"
Time :
"1:05:59 AM"
"1:05:59 am"
"1:05:59 PM"
"1:05:59 pm"
"1:05 AM"
"^(http://|ftp://|https://|go-
pher://)?(a-zA-Z0-9]+.)*a-zA-Z
0-9]+(/(a-zA-Z0-9]|-|.)+)*"
URL
: "http://www.ax-
is.com/prod/index.html"
"ftp://ftp.axis.com/pub/"
"www.axis.com"
"http://www2.lemonde.fr/arti-
cle/0,2320,seq-2039-53663-MI
A,00.html"
