Character Class

Matching Specific Characters

You have a test string S. Your task is to write a regex that will match S with following conditions:

  • S must be of length: 6

  • First character: 1, 2 or 3

  • Second character: 1, 2 or 0

  • Third character: x, s or 0

  • Fourth character: 3, 0 , A or a

  • Fifth character: x, s or u

  • Sixth character: . or ,

^[1-3][120][xs0][30Aa][xsu][\.,]$

Excluding Specific Characters

You have a test string S. Your task is to write a regex that will match S with the following conditions:

  • S must be of length 6.

  • First character should not be a digit (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0).

  • Second character should not be a lowercase vowel (a, e, i, o or u).

  • Third character should not be b, c, D or F.

  • Fourth character should not be a whitespace character ( \r, \n, \t, \f or <space> ).

  • Fifth character should not be a uppercase vowel (A, E, I, O or U).

  • Sixth character should not be a . or , symbol.

^[^\d][^aeiou][^bcDF][^\s][^AEIOU][^\.,]$

Matching Character Ranges

Write a RegEx that will match a string satisfying the following conditions:

  • The string’s length is >= 5.

  • The first character must be a lowercase English alphabetic character.

  • The second character must be a positive digit. Note that we consider zero to be neither positive nor negative.

  • The third character must not be a lowercase English alphabetic character.

  • The fourth character must not be an uppercase English alphabetic character.

  • The fifth character must be an uppercase English alphabetic character.

^[a-z][1-9][^a-z][^A-Z][A-Z]

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