Username regular expression

[Andy G]

I am trying to validate a username text box. This text box comes off of a
registration form where the user types in a username, I want to validate
that they used between 6 and 15 alphanumeric characters in the username.
Could be all numbers or all characters or a combination of the 2 and allow
one of the each @ , underscore , and period.

Here is what I have so far:
([a-zA-Z0-9]{6,15})$

Thanks!

[Haacked]

The requirement that they allow one of each @ _ and period makes this tricky.
The only way I can think of to do this is to use a zero-width positive
lookahead.

^((?=[^\.]*\.?[^\.]*)(?=[^_]*_?[^_]*)(?=[^@]*@?[^@]*)[a-zA-Z0-9]{6,15})$

DISCLAIMER: I haven't tested this.

Basically it's ensuring that the matched expression only has at most one @ _
or .

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"Andy G" wrote:

I am trying to validate a username text box. This text box comes off of a
registration form where the user types in a username, I want to validate
that they used between 6 and 15 alphanumeric characters in the username.
Could be all numbers or all characters or a combination of the 2 and allow
one of the each @ , underscore , and period.

Here is what I have so far:
([a-zA-Z0-9]{6,15})$

Thanks!