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Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	(AUX|PRN|NUL|COM\d|LPT\d)+\s*$
Description	"Be careful when opening or creating files by using Scripting File System Object. If the filename is based on the user's input, the user might attempt to open a serial port or printer."
Matches	COM1 | AUX | LPT1
Non-Matches	image.jpg | index.html | readme.txt
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Chris Craft

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^#?([a-f]|[A-F]|[0-9]){3}(([a-f]|[A-F]|[0-9]){3})?$
Description	Tests for valid HTML hexadecimal color codes. The # symbol is optional. And it will except either the 3 digit form for the 216 Web safe colors, or the full 6 digit form. I am use it on my site to allow users to customize the site's colors.
Matches	#00ccff | #039 | ffffcc
Non-Matches	blue | 0x000000 | #ff000
Author	Rating: Chris Craft

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^\w+[\w-\.]*\@\w+((-\w+)|(\w*))\.[a-z]{2,3}$
Description	Email validation. With this short expression you can validate for proper email format. It's short and accurate.
Matches	[email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected]
Non-Matches	[email protected] | [email protected] | smith@foo_com
Author	Rating: Eric Lebetsamer

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(user=([a-z0-9]+,)*(([a-z0-9]+){1});)?(group=([a-z0-9]+,)*(([a-z0-9]+){1});)?(level=[0-9]+;)?$
Description	This re was used for a security routine. The format is: [user=name1,name2,...,nameN;][group=group1,group2,...,groupN;][level=number;] Each component is optional, but they must appear the in order listed if applicable.
Matches	user=foo,bar,quux;group=manager,admin;level=100; | group=nobody;level=24;
Non-Matches	user=foo | blahh
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Michael Scovetta

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	\b(([01]?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.){3}([01]?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\b
Description	Most Concise RegExp for matching Decimal IPs. If nothing else, it'll make your code easier to read. (And I know that \d?\d is \d{1,2} but that's 2 extra characters.) --Update: darkone noticed 8 characters could be shaved down. I've edited it to reflect this. Thanks, darkone!
Matches	217.6.9.89 | 0.0.0.0 | 255.255.255.255
Non-Matches	256.0.0.0 | 0978.3.3.3 | 65.4t.54.3
Author	Rating: Sean Schricker

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[0-9]+$
Description	Validate a string to see if it contains a number / integer
Matches	1234567890 | 1234567890 | 1234567890
Non-Matches	http://none | http://none | http://none
Author	Rating: Mr M

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^\D?(\d{3})\D?\D?(\d{3})\D?(\d{4})$
Description	This RegEx requires a US phone number WITH area code. It is written to all users to enter whatever delimiters they want or no delimiters at all (i.e. 111-222-3333, or 111.222.3333, or (111) 222-3333, or 1112223333, etc...).
Matches	(111) 222-3333 | 1112223333 | 111-222-3333
Non-Matches	11122223333 | 11112223333 | 11122233333
Author	Rating: Laurence O'Donnell

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^([\w\d\-\.]+)@{1}(([\w\d\-]{1,67})|([\w\d\-]+\.[\w\d\-]{1,67}))\.(([a-zA-Z\d]{2,4})(\.[a-zA-Z\d]{2})?)$
Description	This pattern allows standard e-mail addresses (e.g. [email protected]), sub domains (e.g. [email protected]), the new two- and four-letter domains (e.g. [email protected] and [email protected]) and country codes (e.g. [email protected]). Also, this patter follows the Network Solutions standard length of 67 characters for top-level domains. The reason I allow numbers to be entered in the domain suffix is for future planning. If you do not want numbers to be able to be added as a domain suffix (e.g. [email protected]), simply delete the last two occurrences of "\d".
Matches	[email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected]
Non-Matches	[email protected] | [email protected] | foo@[email protected]
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Laurence O'Donnell

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^((4\d{3})|(5[1-5]\d{2})|(6011))-?\d{4}-?\d{4}-?\d{4}|3[4,7]\d{13}$
Description	Matches major credit cards including: Visa (length 16, prefix 4), Mastercard (length 16, prefix 51-55), Discover (length 16, prefix 6011), American Express (length 15, prefix 34 or 37). All 16 digit formats accept optional hyphens (-) between each group of four digits.
Matches	6011-1111-1111-1111 | 5423-1111-1111-1111 | 341111111111111
Non-Matches	4111-111-111-111 | 3411-1111-1111-111 | Visa
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(\d{4}[- ]){3}\d{4}|\d{16}$
Description	Credit card validator. Just checks that the format is either 16 numbers in groups of four separated by a "-" or a " " or nothing at all.
Matches	1234-1234-1234-1234 | 1234 1234 1234 1234 | 1234123412341234
Non-Matches	Visa | 1234 | 123-1234-12345
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	((\(\d{3}\)?)|(\d{3}))([\s-./]?)(\d{3})([\s-./]?)(\d{4})
Description	US Phone number that accept a dot, a space, a dash, a forward slash, between the numbers. Will Accept a 1 or 0 in front. Area Code not necessary
Matches	1.2123644567 | 0-234.567/8912 | 1-(212)-123 4567
Non-Matches	0-212364345 | 1212-364,4321 | 0212\345/6789
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Mart Maasikas

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	\d{4}-?\d{4}-?\d{4}-?\d{4}
Description	Major credit card validator. Only checks that the format is 16 digits (optionally separated by hyphens), not the value of any of the digits.
Matches	1234-1234-1234-1234 | 1234123412341234
Non-Matches	1234123412345
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	[\w-]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+
Description	Yet another simple email validator expression.
Matches	[email protected] | [email protected]
Non-Matches	asdf | 1234
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	((\(\d{3}\) ?)|(\d{3}-))?\d{3}-\d{4}
Description	US Phone Number -- doesn't check to see if first digit is legal (not a 0 or 1).
Matches	(123) 456-7890 | 123-456-7890
Non-Matches	1234567890
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^\s*[a-zA-Z,\s]+\s*$
Description	Any Expression Upper/Lower Case, with commas and space between the text, with any amount of space before or after
Matches	Smith, Ed | Ed Smith | aBcDeFgH
Non-Matches	a123 | AB5 | Mr. Ed
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Mart Maasikas

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[0,1]?\d{1}\/(([0-2]?\d{1})|([3][0,1]{1}))\/(([1]{1}[9]{1}[9]{1}\d{1})|([2-9]{1}\d{3}))$
Description	This expression checks the validity of a date (US, but it is easily editable for other format's). Year's 1990-9999, Month's 1 or 01 to 12, Day's 1 or 01 to 31. Still needs to have individual months added (i.e., Feb's 28 days), and some how to check for leap year...the months issue should not be to hard, but the leap year seems like a real chore. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for leap year.
Matches	01/01/1990 | 12/12/9999 | 3/28/2001
Non-Matches	3-8-01 | 13/32/1001 | 03/32/1989
Author	Rating: Scott Watermasysk

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^\d{5}-\d{4}|\d{5}|[A-Z]\d[A-Z] \d[A-Z]\d$
Description	This expression matches three different formats of postal codes: 5 digit US ZIP code, 5 digit US ZIP code + 4, and 6 digit alphanumeric Canadian Postal Code. The first one must be 5 numeric digits. The ZIP+4 must be 5 numeric digits, a hyphen, and then 4 numeric digits. The Canadian postal code must be of the form ANA NAN where A is any uppercase alphabetic character and N is a numeric digit from 0 to 9.
Matches	44240 | 44240-5555 | G3H 6A3
Non-Matches	Ohio | abc | g3h6a3
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[2-9]\d{2}-\d{3}-\d{4}$
Description	This expression matches a hyphen separated US phone number, of the form ANN-NNN-NNNN, where A is between 2 and 9 and N is between 0 and 9.
Matches	800-555-5555 | 333-444-5555 | 212-666-1234
Non-Matches	000-000-0000 | 123-456-7890 | 2126661234
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$
Description	This expression matches email addresses, and checks that they are of the proper form. It checks to ensure the top level domain is between 2 and 4 characters long, but does not check the specific domain against a list (especially since there are so many of them now).
Matches	[email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected]
Non-Matches	a@b | notanemail | joe@@.
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[12345]$
Description	This matches a single numeric digit between 1 and 5, and is the same as saying ^[1-5]$.
Matches	1 | 2 | 4
Non-Matches	6 | -1 | abc
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Steven Smith