Urgent! regular expression!

[learner]

Hi,

How to find a word is containing only alphabets, numbers, _ and -?
Also,It should not start with _ and -?
How abt testing with this exp - /^(\w|\d)(\w|\d|-|_)+$/; ?

[Randy Webb]

Re: Urgent! regular expression!

learner wrote:
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> Hi,[/color]

Hi, this is your thind "Urgent!" this morning. Is it homework?
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> How to find a word is containing only alphabets, numbers, _ and -?[/color]

With a regular expression.
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> Also,It should not start with _ and -?[/color]

Then test for that.
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> How abt testing with this exp - /^(\w|\d)(\w|\d|-|_)+$/; ?[/color]

How about *you* testing with that exp? Its not that hard.



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