Re: regular expression no match on set if subset matches
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (noreply_at_gunnar.cc)
Date: 01/24/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:21:52 +0100
Dave wrote:
> I am trying to define a regular expression to validate a password
> format so that the password is valid if it contains from 4 to 10
> characters except in the one special case where it has the format
> of three letters followed by two numbers.
>
> That is, "abc13edl" is fine but "abc13" is not.
>
> Is there a solution to this
This uses two regexes:
$_ = 'mypassword';
print "OK\n" if /^\S{4,10}$/ and !/^[a-z]{3}\d{2}$/i;
> (using the gnu Java regular expression package)?
Have no idea. We talk Perl here.
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