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Jean-Yves

Post subject: [SOLVED] Regex to allow user names only

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:29 am

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Hi,

Could somebody tell me how to write a regular expression that covers the following rules for a user name:

Must be 5 to 15 characters in length, and may only contain letters, underscores and hyphens.

I would need this for Javascript and for PHP, so if they use a different pattern, please could you show me both.

I have tried, truly I have. I've got bits working, but never the whole. Regular expressions and me were clearly never destined to cohabit the same point in time and space in any meaningful way! :wink:

Many thanks in advance.

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Chris Corbyn

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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:09 am

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\w matches letters A-Z (upper and lowercase) and underscores so you just need that in a charcted class alogn with a hyphen with {5,15} for the length.
Use ^ and $ to constrain where the start and end parts are.

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$username1 = 'ipsy_dipsy'; //Woohoo

$username2 = 'i am a little st*r'; //Got spaces! Got * !

if (preg_match('/^&#1111;\w-]{5,15}$/', $username1)) {

    echo $username1 .' is valid';

} else {

    echo $username1 .' is invalid';

}

and in javascript we use the test() method

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var username1 = 'ipsy_dipsy'; //Woohoo

var username2 = 'i am a little st*r'; //Got spaces! Got * !

var re = new RegExp('/^&#1111;\\w-]{5,15}$/');

if (re.test(username1)) {

    alert(username1 +' is valid');

} else {

    alert(username1 +' is invalid');

}

Hope it helps

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Jean-Yves

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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:05 am

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