[thelist] regex help

[Matt Warden]

On 8/24/06, Anthony Baratta <anthony at baratta.com> wrote:
> Try this...
>
> ^\d{5}$

Just to explain why this works and yours doesn't...

\d{5} says match 5 digits.

Can you find 5 consecutive digits in "1234567890"? Yes.

^\d{5}$ says match the  beginning of the string, 5 digits, then the
end of th string. Thus, it would not match the above string.

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Matt Warden
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