[thelist] numeric only regex?

[Frank]

At 12:51 PM 2005-08-02, you wrote:
>Hi, I'm trying to come up with a simple regex that will allow me to test 
>for numbers 0-9 ONLY. The
>numbers are held in a variable 'numtext'. I got as far as:
>
>var match = /[\d\d]/.test(numtext);

Depending on the language... try this:

Assuming you want only one instance of 0 to 9:     [0-9]
Only two instances:     [0-9][0-9] OR [0-9]{2,}
Infinite instances:     [0-9]+
Zero or more instances:     [0-9]*
Zero or one instances:     [0-9]?

Here's  a pretty useful reference

http://www.anybrowser.org/bbedit/grep.shtml







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