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I need an regular expression pattern to only accept positive whole numbers. It can also accept a single zero.
I do not want to accept decimals, negative number and numbers with leading zeros.
Any suggestions?
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\d for single or multiple digit numbers It will match any single digit number from 0 to 9. \d means [0-9] or match any number from 0 to 9. Instead of writing 0123456789 the shorthand version is [0-9] where [] is used for character range. [1-9][0-9] will match double digit number from 10 to 99.
The regex [0-9] matches single-digit numbers 0 to 9. [1-9][0-9] matches double-digit numbers 10 to 99. That's the easy part. Matching the three-digit numbers is a little more complicated, since we need to exclude numbers 256 through 999.
The Match-zero-or-more Operator ( * ) This operator repeats the smallest possible preceding regular expression as many times as necessary (including zero) to match the pattern. `*' represents this operator. For example, `o*' matches any string made up of zero or more `o' s.
It indicates that the subpattern is a non-capture subpattern. That means whatever is matched in (?:\w+\s) , even though it's enclosed by () it won't appear in the list of matches, only (\w+) will.
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