Re^2: Need a regex..

[littlemonk]

in reply to Re: Need a regex..
in thread Need a regex..

it should match non-decimal value also ...example 12,123, and it should not match more than 3 digits before and after decimal..i have one regex(/^\- \+{0,1}0-9{0,3}(\.){0,1}0-9{0,3}\%{0,1}$/) but its accepting 1234(more than 3 digits before decimal) ... plz help me

[kennethk]

Please wrap code it <code> tags to keep things legible. As you can see, your character classes got linkified.

1234 is passing because it's being read as (123)(4). You should set the whole part following and including the decimal in a non-capturing group with a conditional: /^[-+]?[0-9]{0,3}(?:\.[0-9]{0,3})?%?$/ I've also removed a bunch of unnecessary escaping, and changed your {0,1} to the shorter ? synonym.

A read through of perlretut may be helpful.

[Neighbour]

Edit: Lost the race to Re: Need a regex.., which is also slightly better :)
Try a more grouped approach:
/^([+]|[-])?[0-9]{0,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3})?$/
First the start of the line: ^
then an optional + or - sign, with the + enclosed in [] to avoid interpretation: ([+]|-)?
then 0-3 digits: [0-9]{0,3}
then an optional group of a period followed by 1-3 digits, with the period escaped in another way to avoid interpretation: (\.[0-9]{1,3})?
and finally the end of the line: $