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in thread Regular Expression Builder
I was going to suggest the same thing. This is similar to how the old dBase use to work with its 'patterns' to authenticate data. I can't remember it completely but I'd suggest using extra wildcards to the above:
ALSO: Note that /\w/ ne /a-z/i
- A or a: Any alpha character
- Z: Uppercase character
- z: Lowercase character
- 9: Numeral
- *: Any string of characters
- ?: Any single character
ALSO: Note that /\w/ ne /a-z/i
These combined would result in:
The code for parsing this shouldn't be too hard to create, but I'd suggest wrapping the following comment in at an earlier stage and parsing the users pattern looking for repeats as you go.USER: @foo29 RE: /\@foo2\d/ USER: @zzz99 RE: /\@[a-z]{3}\d{2}/ USER: @AAA99 RE: /\@[a-zA-Z]\d{2}/ #Note that 'A' becomes #[a-zA-Z] rather than [a-z] with /i #because there may later be a 'z' #in your users pattern :)
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