Regular Expression for maximum characters?

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Hi,
I need a regular expression which would allow characters from 1-5000 in text field including spaces. I am using this regular expression

"^[a-zA-Z0-9#£$&%+*-., !@()\\s]{1,5000}$

It is also not allowing to save exact 5000 but slightly more than 4000.
Please help

Posted 20-Feb-12 0:50am

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CRDave1988 20-Feb-12 7:03am

Not Getting. Do u want to check length? or something else can u give some good example?

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Aniket Yadav · Answer 1 · 2012-02-20T00:59:00

This article from codeproject will help you

Check maxlength of multiline textbox in javascript[^]

Accept the answer if it has helped you. And Vote it

Posted 20-Feb-12 0:59am