Fairly new to regex, looking to identify a user id pattern that is all alpha, is exactly 6 characters, and the second character is always a Z. Any help would be appreciated.
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Give us an example what you expect from a text as output – Makusium Jun 11 '20 at 14:47
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[a-zA-Z]{1}\Z[a-zA-Z]{4} maybe – Alberto Sinigaglia Jun 11 '20 at 14:48
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How about this regex:
\w(Z|z)\w{4}
Is this what you want?
Chris Ruehlemann
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that doesn't find a match, an example would be bzh7wv. *Edit* It can include digits 1-9. – Josh Dixon Jun 11 '20 at 15:02
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But you said the second char was always a "Z" (upper case!) Have edited the answer – Chris Ruehlemann Jun 11 '20 at 15:18
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As I understood you want something to detect something like this:
jZabcd
What you could do is something like this:
[A-Za-z][Z]([A-Za-z]{4})
Breakdown:
[A-Za-z] = detects all alpha big and small letters only once.
[Z] = checks if there is only a big "Z".
() = a group to make it easier.
{4} = checks if there is 4 times from what was infront of the 4.
[A-Za-z]{4} = checks if there are 4 letters from big A-Z and small a-z.
I hope this helps you out and please expand your question next time a little more.
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Check out this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4923380/difference-between-regex-a-z-and-a-za-z for what `A-z` actually matches! – Chris Ruehlemann Jun 11 '20 at 17:37
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@ChrisRuehlemann thank you kind sir! Damn now I need to change all my codes from earlier projects...better now than later. – Makusium Jun 11 '20 at 20:31
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