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I need to create a regular expression that detects whether a field in the database is numeric, and if it is numeric does it fall within a valid range (i.e. 1-50). I've tried [1-50], which works except for the instances where a single digit number is preceded by a 0 (i.e. 06). 06 should still be considered a valid number, since I can later convert that to a number.
I really appreciate your help! I'm trying to learn more about regular expressions, and have been learning all I can from: www.regular-expressions.info. If you guys have recommendations of other sites to bone up on this stuff I would appreciate it!
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To show a range of characters, use square backets and separate the starting character from the ending character with a hyphen. For example, [0-9] matches any digit. Several ranges can be put inside square brackets. For example, [A-CX-Z] matches 'A' or 'B' or 'C' or 'X' or 'Y' or 'Z'.
To check for all numbers in a field To get a string contains only numbers (0-9) we use a regular expression (/^[0-9]+$/) which allows only numbers. Next, the match() method of the string object is used to match the said regular expression against the input value.
\d (digit) matches any single digit (same as [0-9] ). The uppercase counterpart \D (non-digit) matches any single character that is not a digit (same as [^0-9] ).
* - means "0 or more instances of the preceding regex token"
Try this
^(0?[1-9])|([1-4][0-9])|(50)$
The idea of this regex is to break the problem down into cases
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