Regular expression to validate string

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Hi all,

I want a regular expression that will accept a string with digit(0-9) along with "-", "+", "(", ")", "." , "," and space .It WILL BE a STRING with random combination of above characters.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 26-Feb-13 3:29am

Jitendra Ku. Sahoo

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Mike Meinz · Answer 1 · 2013-02-26T03:37:00

Solution 1

I use TXT2RE Regular Expression Generator to quickly create Regular Expressions.

Posted 26-Feb-13 3:37am

Mike Meinz

Andreas Gieriet · Answer 2 · 2013-02-26T04:23:00

Solution 2

Use the following approach:

C#

string input = ...;
string pattern = @"^[\s0-9"+Regex.Escape("-+().,")+"]+$";
if (Regex.Match(input, pattern).Success) { /* success actions... */ }

Cheers
Andi

Posted 26-Feb-13 4:23am

Andreas Gieriet

Updated 26-Feb-13 4:25am

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