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The ‹ ^ › and ‹ $ › anchors ensure that the regex matches the entire subject string; otherwise, it could match 10 characters within longer text. The ‹ [A-Z] › character class matches any single uppercase character from A to Z, and the interval quantifier ‹ {1,10} › repeats the character class from 1 to 10 times.
\w (word character) matches any single letter, number or underscore (same as [a-zA-Z0-9_] ). The uppercase counterpart \W (non-word-character) matches any single character that doesn't match by \w (same as [^a-zA-Z0-9_] ). In regex, the uppercase metacharacter is always the inverse of the lowercase counterpart.
You can use curly braces to control the number of occurrences. For example, this means 0 to 10:
/^[a-z]{0,10}$/
The options are:
See the regular expression reference.
Your expression had a + after the closing curly brace, hence the error.
/^[a-z]{0,10}$/ should work. /^[a-z]{1,10}$/ if you want to match at least one character, like /^[a-z]+$/ does.
It might be beneficial to add greedy matching to the end of the string, so you can accept strings > than 10 and the regex will only return up to the first 10 chars. /^[a-z0-9]{0,10}$?/
grep '^[0-9]\{1,16\}' | wc -l
Gives the counts with exact match count with limit
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