Slightly off topic....
How can I write a regex that limits user input to 3 digits in the range of
1-128?
I've been trying \d{1,128} but this allows for a match on more than 3
digits.
Thanks. 11 3562
Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: How can I write a regex that limits user input to 3 digits in the range of 1-128?
I've been trying \d{1,128} but this allows for a match on more than 3 digits.
Yes - that allows up to 128 digits.
If you want to limit it to 0-128, I suggest you write a simple method
that checks that (e.g. by first checking the length and that all the
characters are digits, and then using Int32.Parse). Is there some
reason you want to use a regular expression?
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Checking the length and then for a max value of 128 is redundant, isn't it?
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.co m> wrote in message
news:MP******** *************** *@msnews.micros oft.com... Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: How can I write a regex that limits user input to 3 digits in the range
of 1-128?
I've been trying \d{1,128} but this allows for a match on more than 3 digits.
Yes - that allows up to 128 digits.
If you want to limit it to 0-128, I suggest you write a simple method that checks that (e.g. by first checking the length and that all the characters are digits, and then using Int32.Parse). Is there some reason you want to use a regular expression?
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Daniel Billingsley <db**********@N O.durcon.SPAAMM .com> wrote: Checking the length and then for a max value of 128 is redundant, isn't it?
Only sort of. It's not actually redundant in that it prevents strings
of the form "0123". It's also usful to do as a "first" check before the
more expensive checks (checking that each character is a digit and the
parsing itself).
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I can see that I didn't make this clear.
I'm trying to limit the user to 3 digits with a possible range of values
from 1-128.
Not 128 digits.
I'm doing it this way because the edit regex is exposed to the user through
configuration choices. So, I'll restrict them to valid regex expressions.
Later, I'll have to use this expression to validate input by another user.
I've come up with this regex,
\b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | [01][0-2][0-8] | [0-9][0-9] | [0-9])\b
This seems to be ok. Is there a better way?
Ron
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.co m> wrote in message
news:MP******** *************** *@msnews.micros oft.com... Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: How can I write a regex that limits user input to 3 digits in the range
of 1-128?
I've been trying \d{1,128} but this allows for a match on more than 3 digits.
Yes - that allows up to 128 digits.
If you want to limit it to 0-128, I suggest you write a simple method that checks that (e.g. by first checking the length and that all the characters are digits, and then using Int32.Parse). Is there some reason you want to use a regular expression?
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Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: I can see that I didn't make this clear.
I'm trying to limit the user to 3 digits with a possible range of values from 1-128.
Not 128 digits.
Indeed. The problem was that your regular expression *was* allowing 128
digits, because the \d{x,y} bit basically says "I want between x and y
digits inclusive".
I'm doing it this way because the edit regex is exposed to the user through configuration choices. So, I'll restrict them to valid regex expressions. Later, I'll have to use this expression to validate input by another user.
I've come up with this regex, \b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | [01][0-2][0-8] | [0-9][0-9] | [0-9])\b
This seems to be ok. Is there a better way?
Well, you can make it slightly better:
\b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | 0?[0-9]?[0-9])\b
I *think* that works okay, but to be honest I haven't tried it.
Currently your regular expression isn't terribly clear because the
third "chunk" of it overlaps with the second chunk. (IMO, anyway.)
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Yes, I see the overlap now. Thanks. \b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | 0?[0-9]?[0-9])\b
What does the ? mean in your regex?
Ron
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.co m> wrote in message
news:MP******** *************** *@msnews.micros oft.com... Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: I can see that I didn't make this clear.
I'm trying to limit the user to 3 digits with a possible range of values from 1-128.
Not 128 digits.
Indeed. The problem was that your regular expression *was* allowing 128 digits, because the \d{x,y} bit basically says "I want between x and y digits inclusive".
I'm doing it this way because the edit regex is exposed to the user
through configuration choices. So, I'll restrict them to valid regex
expressions. Later, I'll have to use this expression to validate input by another
user. I've come up with this regex, \b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | [01][0-2][0-8] | [0-9][0-9] | [0-9])\b
This seems to be ok. Is there a better way?
Well, you can make it slightly better:
\b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | 0?[0-9]?[0-9])\b
I *think* that works okay, but to be honest I haven't tried it.
Currently your regular expression isn't terribly clear because the third "chunk" of it overlaps with the second chunk. (IMO, anyway.)
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Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: Yes, I see the overlap now. Thanks.
\b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | 0?[0-9]?[0-9])\b
What does the ? mean in your regex?
It's basically "the preceding character is optional".
I really wouldn't start messing around with regular expressions like
this without reading a thorough tutorial on it and having MSDN handy,
personally.
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Agreed!
I use regular expressions about once every 2 years. I still haven't found a
straight forward tutorial that doesn't take days to read through. I even
bought the O'Reilly Regular Expressions book when I was doing some Perl
several years ago. At the time I found it pretty useful. But like most
things, if you don't use it, you lose it.
Do you have any "favorite" sites or books that you like to use for
reference?
Ron
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.co m> wrote in message
news:MP******** *************** *@msnews.micros oft.com... Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: Yes, I see the overlap now. Thanks.
\b(12[0-8] | 1[0-1][0-9] | 0?[0-9]?[0-9])\b
What does the ? mean in your regex?
It's basically "the preceding character is optional".
I really wouldn't start messing around with regular expressions like this without reading a thorough tutorial on it and having MSDN handy, personally.
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Ron Rohrssen <rl******@fight spam.rockwellco llins.com> wrote: Agreed!
I use regular expressions about once every 2 years. I still haven't found a straight forward tutorial that doesn't take days to read through. I even bought the O'Reilly Regular Expressions book when I was doing some Perl several years ago. At the time I found it pretty useful. But like most things, if you don't use it, you lose it.
Yup.
Do you have any "favorite" sites or books that you like to use for reference?
I personally just use the MSDN for the most part - but then, I haven't
had to use regular expressions much outside responding to newsgroup
posts :)
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