[thelist] regex help - password pattern - javascript

[Anthony Ettinger]

--- Tom Dell'Aringa <pixelmech at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just have not had that "ah-ha!" moment with regex
> yet - it doesn't click when I try and make a
> pattern. I need a pattern for a password that will
> require minimum 8 characters with at least 2
> numbers. I only got this far:
> 
> /^([\w][\d]{2,}){8,}$/
> 
> I'm thinking this really only says one word char and
> 2 digits, 8 times...somewhat confused. Any
> help would be great.
> 

I tried playing around with perl's regex, still
couldn't come up with something limiting to 8 only \w
and 2 only \d without specifying order.

You can read more: '$perldoc perlretut' and '$perldoc
perlre'





Anthony Ettinger
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