Regex for decimal and money

[Earl]

I can validate for simple numbers and decimals with the pattern [^\\d.], but
how to prevent the user from entering something silly like 1.5.6?

[rdrunner]

"Earl" <br******@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
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>I can validate for simple numbers and decimals with the pattern [^\\d.],
but how to prevent the user from entering something silly like 1.5.6?

Try a pattern that will allow only one "." in the number...But I would not
use a regexp to parse a number. You should try the TryParse of the numeric
types to make sure you got a valid number.

Also I would not consider "1.234" a valid Decimal since I am German, and you
would have to use 1,234 here ;) And TryParse will acknolage the local
culture

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rdrunner napisał(a):

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"Earl" <br******@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:Ow**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>I can validate for simple numbers and decimals with the pattern
[^\\d.], but how to prevent the user from entering something silly
like 1.5.6?

Try a pattern that will allow only one "." in the number...But I would
not use a regexp to parse a number. You should try the TryParse of the
numeric types to make sure you got a valid number.

Also I would not consider "1.234" a valid Decimal since I am German, and
you would have to use 1,234 here ;) And TryParse will acknolage the
local culture

here is a regex:

"(\+|-)?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]*)?"

if you need to check what is the valid decimal separator use

string s =
@"\+|-)?[0-9][0-9]*(\" +
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Nu mberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator
+ @"[0-9]*)?"

best,
SÅ‚awomir

[Earl]

Thanks to both of you. I'll consider both ideas.

"Slawek" <sp****************@o2.plwrote in message
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rdrunner napisal(a):

>>
"Earl" <br******@newsgroups.nospamwrote in message
news:Ow**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>I can validate for simple numbers and decimals with the pattern [^\\d.],
but how to prevent the user from entering something silly like 1.5.6?

Try a pattern that will allow only one "." in the number...But I would
not use a regexp to parse a number. You should try the TryParse of the
numeric types to make sure you got a valid number.

Also I would not consider "1.234" a valid Decimal since I am German, and
you would have to use 1,234 here ;) And TryParse will acknolage the local
culture

here is a regex:

"(\+|-)?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]*)?"

if you need to check what is the valid decimal separator use

string s =
@"\+|-)?[0-9][0-9]*(\" +
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Nu mberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator
+ @"[0-9]*)?"

best,
Slawomir