Matching a numerical range in a regular expression

[smartic]

i need a regular expression between 1-12 only how can i do that?

[nathj]

i need a regular expression between 1-12 only how can i do that?

Hi,

the reg exp would be something like:

'^[0-9 ]{1,2}$'

Though I'm not sure of the exact syntax. The trouble with this is that it allows any 1 or 2 digit character sequence made up of 0-9. Technically speaking this would allow 0 - 99 as valid input. I would use this to start to off with and then check the input to ensure that a resulting number is not greater than 12.

Someone else may have a better solution, but it's late and I'm just trying to help.

The tricky part is that to a computer base 10 is simply combinations of digits between 0 and 9 and so the number twelve is ot really there it's merely a name we give to 12.

Sorry to get all conceptual- it's late.

Cheers
nathj