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I need a regex expression that will match the following:
.5
0.5
1.5
1234
but NOT
0.5.5
absnd (any letter character or space)
I have this that satisfies all but 0.5.5
^[.?\d]+$
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\d* - 0 or more digits (the decimal part);
The regex [0-9] matches single-digit numbers 0 to 9. [1-9][0-9] matches double-digit numbers 10 to 99. Something like ^[2-9][1-6]$ matches 21 or even 96! Any help would be appreciated.
Occurrence Indicators (or Repetition Operators): +: one or more ( 1+ ), e.g., [0-9]+ matches one or more digits such as '123' , '000' . *: zero or more ( 0+ ), e.g., [0-9]* matches zero or more digits. It accepts all those in [0-9]+ plus the empty string.
A repeat is an expression that is repeated an arbitrary number of times. An expression followed by '*' can be repeated any number of times, including zero. An expression followed by '+' can be repeated any number of times, but at least once.
This is a fairly common task. The simplest way I know of to deal with it is this:
^[+-]?(\d*\.)?\d+$
There are also other complications, such as whether you want to allow leading zeroes or commas or things like that. This can be as complicated as you want it to be. For example, if you want to allow the 1,234,567.89 format, you can go with this:
^[+-]?(\d*|\d{1,3}(,\d{3})*)(\.\d+)?\b$
That \b there is a word break, but I'm using it as a sneaky way to require at least one numeral at the end of the string. This way, an empty string or a single + won't match.
However, be advised that regexes are not the ideal way to parse numeric strings. All modern programming languages I know of have fast, simple, built-in methods for doing that.
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