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Surender Biyyala
(40●38●48) Dec 03 '14, 6:19 a.m.
 Hi ,

I created a validator using the regular expression which should allow either

00000000 or 00000000-00 as below
(([0-9]{8})|([0-9]{8}-[0-9]{2});?)+

when test using the test filed it is working fine but the real thing is not working as expected , i mean the attribute which is using this validator is allowing only the 00000000 as the correct value.

Could some please help me in understanding this issue?

Thanks
Surender

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Brian Fleming
(1.6k●1●19●28) Dec 03 '14, 10:28 a.m.
I don't have an explanation as to why, but reversing your expression works for me:
(([0-9]{8}-[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{8});?)+

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Surender Biyyala
Dec 03 '14, 12:34 p.m.
Thanks Brain for your help. I have one more requirement  i.e.,  My regular expression should allow the following pattern 00000000 or 00000000-00 seperated by ; the  expression working very fine for the pattern but it is accepting even without the special character.  (([0-9]{8}-[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{8});?)+ How can I force to have the special character between two formats? Thanks Surender

Brian Fleming
Dec 03 '14, 2:43 p.m.
RegEx questions probably don't belong in this forum and you may get better responses somewhere like stackoverflow.  In any case, this ^([0-9]{8}-[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{8})(;([0-9]{8}-[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{8}))* works for me.  No guarantees that there aren't more efficient ways to accomplish the same thing.

Manoj Panda
JAZZ DEVELOPER Dec 27 '18, 10:59 a.m.
could you please help me in case i want the validation should be MMM-YYYY format. what should  be the regular expression?

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