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I've researched a little, but I found nothing that relates exactly to what I need and whenever tried to create the expression it is always a little off from what I require.
I attempted something along the lines of [AZaz09]{3,8}\-[AZaz09]{3,8}.
I want the valid result to only allow text-text, where either or the text can be alphabetical or numeric however the only symbol allowed is - and that is in between the two texts.
Each text must be at least three characters long ({3,8}?), then separated by the -.
Therefore for it to be valid some examples could be:
Text-Text
Abc-123
123-Abc
A2C-def4gk
Invalid tests could be:
Ab-3
Abc!-ajr4
a-bc3-25aj
a?c-b%
591
In posix-ere and other regex flavors, outside a character class ( [...] ), + acts as a quantifier meaning "one or more, but as many as possible, occurrences of the quantified pattern*. E.g. in javascript, s. replace(/\++/g, '-') will replace a string like ++++ with a single - .
There are also two types of regular expressions: the "Basic" regular expression, and the "extended" regular expression. A few utilities like awk and egrep use the extended expression. Most use the "basic" regular expression. From now on, if I talk about a "regular expression," it describes a feature in both types.
So, yes, regular expressions really only apply to strings. If you want a more complicated FSM, then it's possible to write one, but not using your local regex engine.
A Regular Expression (or Regex) is a pattern (or filter) that describes a set of strings that matches the pattern. In other words, a regex accepts a certain set of strings and rejects the rest.
You need to use anchors and use the - so the characters in the character class are read as a range, not the individual characters.
Try:
^[A-Za-z0-9]{3,8}-[A-Za-z0-9]{3,8}$
Demo: https://regex101.com/r/xH3oM8/1
You also could simplify it a but with the i modifier and the \d meta character.
(?i)^[a-z\d]{3,8}-[a-z\d]{3,8}$
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