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Regular expression examples

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If you want to include a $ that will be evaluated with your regular expression, you would need to substitute each instance with $DOLLAR$ to have it resolve to $ when the regular expression executes. For example ^[1-9]$DOLLAR$

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This article gives information about regular expression examples.

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If you want to include a $ that will be evaluated with your regular expression, you would need to substitute each instance with $DOLLAR$ to have it resolve to $ when the regular expression executes. For example ^[1-9]$DOLLAR$

If you want to include an InstallAnywhere variable that will resolve prior to executing your regular expression, you would simply include the variable. For example, ^[1-9$MY_VAR$]$DOLLAR$ would resolve to ^[1-9A-Za-z]$ if $MY_VAR$ contains A-Za-z.

Here are a some examples of Regular Expressions you can use in InstallAnywhere:

Check for user name and password:

^[^;\s\-]![1,28!]$DOLLAR$

Check for Oracle user name, password, SID, Tablespace name:

^[^\d/@,\+;\s\-][^/@,\+;\s\-]![1,28!]$DOLLAR$


Port validation:

^(([1-6]![1!][0-9]![1,4!])![1!])$DOLLAR$

or

^(([7-9]![1!][0-9]![1,3!])![1!])$DOLLAR$


To validate IP addresses entered by users:

\b((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]\d\d|\d?\d)\.)![3!](25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]\d\d|\d?\d)\b

or for a "does not match" scenario

^((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])\.)![3!](25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[0-9])$DOLLAR$
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Regular expression examples