Regex expression for decimal number - regex

Could somebody help me with regex? Basically, I would like a regex which matches with decimal numbers.
Allowed types:
12
1.3234
0.3423434
23423.12
Not allowed types:
0012
12.324.12
01.2332
.12
121212.
Thanks for your help in advance!
Regards!

This regex should do your job.
^(?:[1-9][0-9]*|0)(?:\.[0-9]+)?$
Demo
^ - Start of string
(?: - Beginning of a non-capture group
[1-9][0-9]* - Matches a number not starting with a zero
|0 - Or allows matching only a zero to allow numbers like 0.3423434 or 0.1
(?:\.[0-9]+)? - Optionally allows a decimal part in the number
$ - End of string
Edit: Based on Allan's suggestion to use \d instead of [0-9]
In case your input only contains English numbers, or when you only intend to match English numbers, then using [0-9] should be preferred for reasons like better performance and wide supported of it across regex engines.
But in case your input contains digits from other languages like Hindi १ २ etc. and you want to match any digits, then \d should be preferred instead of [0-9]

That would be
^[[:digit:]]+(\.[[:digit:]]+)?$
Beginning of the string, then one or more digits, then (optionally) a dot and one or more digits, then the end of the string.
If you want to cater for the sign, add [+-]? after the ^.

You could use an alternation
^(?:0\.\d*[1-9]\d*|[1-9]\d*(?:\.\d+)?)$
Regex demo
Explanation
^ Start of string
(?: Non capturing group
0\. Match a single zero followed by a dot
\d*[1-9]\d* Match 0+ digits, a digit 1-9 and again 0+ digits t prevent only zeroes to match
| Or
[1-9]\d* Match a digit 1-9 followed by 0+ digits
(?:\.\d+)?) Optional part to match a dot and 1+ digits
) Close non capturing group

Related

validate string data using regex which allowed only numbers and - (hyphen) of length 6 but hypen should not be the end and the digits not same

Validate the string using the regex which has the - (hypen)
Requirement is : string contains only digits and - (hyphens) and not end with - (hyphen) and all other digits not be the same.
^([0-9-])(?!\1+$)[0-9-]{5}$
The above one allow only digits and hyphen but its not restricted end with hyphen and check all other digits are same.
ex:
1111-1 Not allowed because all are same digits
1111-2 Allowed
11112- Not allowed as its end with - Hypen
-12345 Not allowed as its start with - hypen
You might write the pattern as
^(\d)(?!(?:\1|-)+$)(?!\d*-\d*-)[\d-]{4}\d$
Explanation
^ Start of string
(\d) Capture a single digit in group 1
(?! Negative lookahead
(?:\1|-)+$ Check that to the right there is not only the group 1 value or hyphens
(?!\d*-\d*-) Assert not 2 hyphens
) Close lookahead
[\d-]{4} Match 4 digits or hyphens
\d Match a digit
$ End of string
Regex demo
If there should be at least 1 hyphen:
^(\d)(?!(?:\1|-)+$)(?=\d*-)[\d-]{4}\d$
Regex demo
My 2 cents to allow [01] hyphens:
^(?=.{6}$)(\d)(?=.*(?!\1)\d)\d+(?:-\d+)?$
See an online demo

Regular Expression positive lookbehind

I would like to create a regex, that allowes the following patterns:
1234
1234567
123456789
12345678900-
12345678900-123456
It should be possible to only insert numbers and only one hyphen is allowed.
I tried with the following regex:
^[0-9]{1,11}(?(?<=\d{11})[-]?|)[0-9]{6}
It should not be possible to have 11 characters without the hyphen at the end(12345678900 is wrong).
Unfortunatly it didnt work as I intended.
You can match 1-10 digit and optionally match 1 digit followed by - and 6 digits.
^\d{1,10}(?:\d?-(?:\d{6})?)?$
^ Start of string
\d{1,10} Match 1-10 digits
(?: Non capture group
\d?- Match a single optional digit and -
(?:\d{6})? Match optional 6 digits
)? Close non capture group and make it optional
$ End of string
Regex demo
Another variation could be matching 1-10 digits or match 11 digits with a hyphen and optionally 6 digits if the hyphen should only possible after 11 digits.
^(?:\d{1,10}|\d{11}-(?:\d{6})?)$
Regex demo
You can use
^[0-9]{1,11}(?:(?<=[0-9]{11})-(?:[0-9]{6})?)?$
^\d{1,11}(?:(?<=\d{11})-(?:\d{6})?)?$
See the regex demo. Using \d is possible in case it matches ASCII digits in your regex flavor or you do not care if \d matches all possible Unicode digit chars or not.
Details:
^ - start of string
[0-9]{1,11} - one to eleven digits
(?:(?<=[0-9]{11})-(?:[0-9]{6})?)? - an optional occurrence of
(?<=[0-9]{11}) - immediately to the left there must be 11 digits
- - a hyphen
(?:[0-9]{6})? - an optional occurrence of six digits
$ - end of string.

Regex for a permutation of exactly 7 digits and 2 hyphens, without 2 consecutive hyphens

I a looking for a Regex to match a string which should:
start with a digit
'in-between' have a permutation of exactly 7 digits and 2 hyphens, without 2 consecutive hyphens
end with a sequence of digit, hyphen, digit
Match:
01-234-5678-9
01234-56-78-9
0123-4-5678-9
012-345-678-9
01-234567-8-9
01-234-5678-9
0-12345-678-9
0-123-45678-9
0-123-45678-9
01-23456-78-9
0-123456-78-9
0-1234567-8-9
No Match:
01-234-56789-0
01-234-567-8
01--2345678-9
01-2345678--9
0-1-23456789
-01-2345678-9
For now, I could not quite figure out how to match the 2 'in-between' hyphens: ^\d\d{7}\d-\d$
EDIT:
Thanks to the answers I had to this question, I was able to expand it to this other question regarding ISBN-10 and ISBN-13...
You can assert 7 digits and the digit - digit part at the end.
For the match there should be at least a single digit before and after the hyphen to prevent consecutive hyphens.
^\d(?=(?:-?\d){7}-?\d-\d$)\d*-\d+-\d*\d-\d$
^ Start of string
\d Match a single digit
(?= Positive lookahead
(?:-?\d){7} Match 7 digits separated by an optional -
-?\d-\d$ Match an optional - and the \d-\d$ at the end
) Close the lookahead
\d*-\d+-\d*\d-\d Match possible formats where all hyphens are separated by at least a single digit
$ End of string
Regex demo
My two cents:
^(?=.{11}-\d$)(?:\d+-){3}\d
See the online demo
^ - Start string anchor.
(?= - Open positive lookahead:
.{11}-\d$ - Any character other than newline 11 times followed by a hypen, a single digit and the end string anchor.
) - Close positive lookahead.
(?: - Open non-capture group:
\d+- - 1+ digit followed by an hyphen.
){3} - Close non-capture group and match three times.
\d - Match a single digit.
I guess alternatively even ^(?=.{13}$)(?:\d+-){3}\d$ would work.

Regex to validate numbers before and after decimal excluding comma

I am trying to validate decimal number of 13 digit before and 4 digit after dot excluding comma , i.e comma shouldn't be counted as a digit.
Valid Cases
1,234,567,890,123.1234
1234567890123.1234
123456789012.1234
1234567890123.123
12345.123
1.2
0
In Valid Cases
12345abc.23 // string or special characters not allowed
1,234,567,890,1231.1234
1,234,567,890,123.12341
12345678901231.1234
1234567890123.12341
Current Regex
^[0-9]{1,13}(\.[0-9]{0,4})?$
The current Regex is counting comma as a digit.
Any help would be great.
You could use a negative lookahead to assert what is directly on the right is not 14 times a digit before matching a dot:
^(?!(?:[^.\s\d]*\d){14})-?\d+(?:,\d{1,3})*(?:\.\d{1,4})?$
Explanation
^ Start of string
-? Optional hyphen
(?! Negative lookahead, assert what follows is not
(?:[^.\s\d]*\d){14} Match not a digit, whitespace char or dot 14 times
) Close lookahead
\d+ Match 1+ digits
(?:,\d{1,3})* Match comma, 1-3 digits and repeat 0+ times (Or use \d+)
(?:\.\d{1,3})? Optional part, match a dot and 1-4 digits
$ End of the string
Regex demo
You could just specify the optional count of , Like
^[0-9]{0,1}([,])?[0-9]{0,3}([,])?[0-9]{0,3}([,])?[0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{0,3})?$

Regex: Detect Phone numbers that are separated by dashes (-) and/or spaces

I am trying to recognize these types of phone number inputs:
0172665476
+6265476393
+62-65476393
+62-654-76393
+62 65476393
While my regex: (?:\d+\s*)+ can recognize the 1st 2 sample values, it recognizes the last 3 sample values as multiple matches in each line, instead of recognizing the number as a whole.
How can I modify this to support multiple dashes and/or spaces and still recognize it as 1 whole number instead of multiple matches?
You may use this regex:
^\+?\d+(?:[\s-]\d+)*\b
RegEx Details:
^\+?: Match optional + at start
\d+: match 1+ digits
(?:[\s-]\d+)*: Match 0 or more groups that start with whitespace or - followed by 1+ digits
$: End (Replaced by word boundary as if there are trailing spaces, that match would be missed.)
This should work:
(?:[\d +-]+)+
This would work as per your reqt: (If there are trailing spaces, this regex will ignore.)
Regex: '^(?:[\d +-]+)\b'
Another option could be to use an alternation to match either 10 digits without a leading plus sign or match the pattern with a +, and optional space or hyphen:
(?:\d{10}|\+\d{2}[- ]?\d{3}-?\d{5})\b
That will match:
(?: Non capturing group
\d{10} Match 10 digits
| Or
\+\d{2}[-\s]?\d{3}-?\d{5} Match +, 2 digits, optional whitespace char or -, 3 digits, optional -, 5 digits
)\b Close non capturing group and word boundary
Regex demo
If your language supports negative lookbehinds you could prepend (?<!\S) which checks that what comes before is not a non-whitespace character.