I have a regular expression that I use on text boxes where I want to
limit the user to letters a-z and spaces. I now need to allow
characters such as ö, ä and å (Nordic characters). Does anybody know
how to do this in a regular expression? Here is my current standard
regular expression :
^[a-zA-Z\s]+$
Any assistance would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Mike
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Mike P <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote in
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl: I have a regular expression that I use on text boxes where I want to limit the user to letters a-z and spaces. I now need to allow characters such as ö, ä and å (Nordic characters). Does anybody know how to do this in a regular expression? Here is my current standard regular expression :
^[a-zA-Z\s]+$
Any assistance would be really appreciated.
Mike,
You can add those Nordic characters to the existing character class:
^[a-zA-Zöäå\s]+$
Alternately, you can match all of the characters in a Unicode
"block". Nordic characters are part of the "Latin-1 Supplement"
block, which are characters in the range of 0080-00FF:
^[a-zA-Z\u0080-\u00FF\s]+$
Unicode code charts can be found here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Where Is My Character? http://www.unicode.org/standard/where/
Unicode and Regular Expressions: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/
--
Hope this helps.
Chris.
-------------
C.R. Timmons Consulting, Inc. http://www.crtimmonsinc.com/
I also met with a problem with RegEx.
I want to match such pattern "position:12", and get the substring "12" from
the pattern. What I used in C# is:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>)" );
However, when I use the statement:
string result = match.Groups["num"].Value;
in which match is a Match object that is generated by
regex.Match(sourceString); what I got is a NULL string.
Could anyone explain why? Thanks in advance!
I also met with a problem with RegEx.
I want to match such pattern "position:12", and get the substring "12" from
the pattern. What I used in C# is:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>)" );
However, when I use the statement:
string result = match.Groups["num"].Value;
in which match is a Match object that is generated by
regex.Match(sourceString); what I got is a NULL string.
Could anyone explain why? Thanks in advance!
"=?Utf-8?B?UnlhbiBMZWFybnMgU2hhcnA=?="
<Ry*************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:9E**********************************@microsof t.com: I also met with a problem with RegEx.
I want to match such pattern "position:12", and get the substring "12" from the pattern. What I used in C# is:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>)" );
However, when I use the statement:
string result = match.Groups["num"].Value;
in which match is a Match object that is generated by regex.Match(sourceString); what I got is a NULL string.
The (?<num>) capture group does not have any character matching
specifiers. If you want it to capture a number after the colon,
change it to this:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>\d+)" );
--
Hope this helps.
Chris.
-------------
C.R. Timmons Consulting, Inc. http://www.crtimmonsinc.com/
"=?Utf-8?B?UnlhbiBMZWFybnMgU2hhcnA=?="
<Ry*************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:9E**********************************@microsof t.com: I also met with a problem with RegEx.
I want to match such pattern "position:12", and get the substring "12" from the pattern. What I used in C# is:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>)" );
However, when I use the statement:
string result = match.Groups["num"].Value;
in which match is a Match object that is generated by regex.Match(sourceString); what I got is a NULL string.
The (?<num>) capture group does not have any character matching
specifiers. If you want it to capture a number after the colon,
change it to this:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>\d+)" );
--
Hope this helps.
Chris.
-------------
C.R. Timmons Consulting, Inc. http://www.crtimmonsinc.com/
Thanks Chris !
You are right and I used "position:(?<num>\\d+)" to get the correct data~
I referred to the MSDN, and learned about Group :)
"Chris R. Timmons" wrote: "=?Utf-8?B?UnlhbiBMZWFybnMgU2hhcnA=?=" <Ry*************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:9E**********************************@microsof t.com:
I also met with a problem with RegEx.
I want to match such pattern "position:12", and get the substring "12" from the pattern. What I used in C# is:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>)" );
However, when I use the statement:
string result = match.Groups["num"].Value;
in which match is a Match object that is generated by regex.Match(sourceString); what I got is a NULL string.
The (?<num>) capture group does not have any character matching specifiers. If you want it to capture a number after the colon, change it to this:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>\d+)" );
-- Hope this helps.
Chris. ------------- C.R. Timmons Consulting, Inc. http://www.crtimmonsinc.com/
Thanks Chris !
You are right and I used "position:(?<num>\\d+)" to get the correct data~
I referred to the MSDN, and learned about Group :)
"Chris R. Timmons" wrote: "=?Utf-8?B?UnlhbiBMZWFybnMgU2hhcnA=?=" <Ry*************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:9E**********************************@microsof t.com:
I also met with a problem with RegEx.
I want to match such pattern "position:12", and get the substring "12" from the pattern. What I used in C# is:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>)" );
However, when I use the statement:
string result = match.Groups["num"].Value;
in which match is a Match object that is generated by regex.Match(sourceString); what I got is a NULL string.
The (?<num>) capture group does not have any character matching specifiers. If you want it to capture a number after the colon, change it to this:
Regex regex = new Regex( "position:(?<num>\d+)" );
-- Hope this helps.
Chris. ------------- C.R. Timmons Consulting, Inc. http://www.crtimmonsinc.com/
Mike,
In addition to the other comments.
Have you considered "word characters"? the \w escape?
^[\w\s]+$
Which unfortunately includes numbers.
You could try the unicode block character classes (based on the \w escape):
^[\p{Ll}\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lo}\p{Pc}]. \s]+$
\p{Ll} is all lower case leters & not just a-z...
Expresso & RegEx Workbench both have wizards of varying degrees to help you
build your expression, plus they allow you to test your expressions, also
the analyzer/interpreter in each is rather handy.
Expresso: http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm
RegEx Workbench: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...-4ee2729d7322A
tutorial & reference on using regular expressions: http://www.regular-expressions.info/
The MSDN's documentation on regular expressions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...geElements.asp
Hope this helps
Jay
"Mike P" <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... I have a regular expression that I use on text boxes where I want to limit the user to letters a-z and spaces. I now need to allow characters such as ö, ä and å (Nordic characters). Does anybody know how to do this in a regular expression? Here is my current standard regular expression :
^[a-zA-Z\s]+$
Any assistance would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Mike
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Mike,
In addition to the other comments.
Have you considered "word characters"? the \w escape?
^[\w\s]+$
Which unfortunately includes numbers.
You could try the unicode block character classes (based on the \w escape):
^[\p{Ll}\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lo}\p{Pc}]. \s]+$
\p{Ll} is all lower case leters & not just a-z...
Expresso & RegEx Workbench both have wizards of varying degrees to help you
build your expression, plus they allow you to test your expressions, also
the analyzer/interpreter in each is rather handy.
Expresso: http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm
RegEx Workbench: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...-4ee2729d7322A
tutorial & reference on using regular expressions: http://www.regular-expressions.info/
The MSDN's documentation on regular expressions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...geElements.asp
Hope this helps
Jay
"Mike P" <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... I have a regular expression that I use on text boxes where I want to limit the user to letters a-z and spaces. I now need to allow characters such as ö, ä and å (Nordic characters). Does anybody know how to do this in a regular expression? Here is my current standard regular expression :
^[a-zA-Z\s]+$
Any assistance would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Mike
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