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beginners question

Postby evvo » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:54 am

Hi im a beginner to regular expressions really, just learning the basics, at the moment i require to be able to do some basic validation checking on numbers and hoped for some help here.

for example, our council tax ref numbers are in format of 8 numeric characters and begin with a 3 or a 2, such as 31000044 or 28443562.

my form needs to validate these on this basis so could anyone provide a regex that would do this?

thanks
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Postby Quade » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:17 am

Well, this is a "Newsbin Regular Expression" forum. Not a general purpose one.
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Postby Smite » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:21 pm

Code: Select all
^[23]\d{7}$

should work
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