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I need to come up with a regex that tests for conformance to the following
example:

UA-123456-7

To match, the string :
- must start with "UA-" (upper case only)
- followed by exactly six unsigned integers (each can be zero through nine)
- followed by exactly one dash ("-")
- followed by exactly one integer (which can be zero through nine)

Thanks.

In article <#>, Franklin <> wrote:
>I need to come up with a regex that tests for conformance to the following
>example:
>
>UA-123456-7
>
>To match, the string :
>- must start with "UA-" (upper case only)
>- followed by exactly six unsigned integers (each can be zero through nine)
>- followed by exactly one dash ("-")
>- followed by exactly one integer (which can be zero through nine)


Try
^UA-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9]$

This will work with any regular expression dialect.

/H

Franklin wrote:
> I need to come up with a regex that tests for conformance to the following
> example:
>
> UA-123456-7
>
> To match, the string :
> - must start with "UA-" (upper case only)
> - followed by exactly six unsigned integers (each can be zero through nine)
> - followed by exactly one dash ("-")
> - followed by exactly one integer (which can be zero through nine)
>
> Thanks.
>

That was a much more precise specification that you usually see.

^UA-\d{6}-\d$

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