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Credit card validator Works for switch card numbers too Switch card bit is (\d{6}[-\s]?\d{12}) Credit card bit is (\d{4}[-\s]?\d{4}[-\s]?\d{4}[-\s]?\d{4}) I use this as a client side test before running a more comprehensive server side check.

matches any string with characters repeated more than twice, sometimes used as fake input

Getting closer now... this one has the functionality of the previous two and matches on names like "Jill St. John" as well.

Regex parses elements from a proper name in <<Last, First>> order and permutations. Comments and critiques are welcome.

A very simple ISBN validation expression - it just checks for a 10 digit number where the last digit could also be a capital 'X'. Complete specs for ISBN available here: http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/international/html/usm4.htm. An enhancement would be to allow exactly 3 or 0 hyphens or 3 or 0 spaces, since these are also valid formats.

A general string validation to insure no malicious code is being passed through user input. General enough too allow email address, names, address, passwords, so on. Disallows ‘,\*&$<> or other characters that could cause issues.

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.

Any Expression Upper/Lower Case, with commas and space between the text, with any amount of space before or after

Additional checks for <> and " characters

Heres my sql clause parser regexp for recordset filtering. Does recursive query parsing all by its self. Only problem I cant figure is how to match comma separated lists of quoted strings. Tell me if you figure out how! The unicodes in the re was put in by the entry form please replace them with their ascii equivalents to use it.

This expression will match all of the commands(escape codes) used in ANSI files. These are what were used to create the colors/blocks on BBS's for those of us that once dialed into them. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code has a reference for ANSI escape codes. http://idledreams.net/lordscarlet/posts/153.aspx shows an example of the engine I have created surrounding the expression

[Note: this regex was tested with Macromedia's ColdFusion MX. I'm sure it'll need some massaging to work with other regex engines.] Of the few domain validating regular expressions I found in my search I didn't find a single one that reliably handled multiple levels of subdomains or TLDs. So, I wrote one and thoroughly tested it. There are a ton of matching and non-matching examples that need to be included to show the completeness of this regex. Non-matching: -.domain.com, -a.domain.com, -domain.com, domain-.com, any domain where the portion before the tld is greater than 63 characters. Matching: a.domain.com, a-a.domain.com, a--a.domain.com, a--defg.com, domain.co.uk.

matches a six character "password" that has to consist of numbers and letters with at least one letter in it.

Social Insurance Number validator. Canadians only need apply. If somebody could help me (I'm bad at regex), I would like to modify this so that if there is one space after the 3rd digit (or 6th) then there must be one after the 6th (or third).

This regular expression will match a hyphen-separated Social Security Number (SSN) in the format NNN-NN-NNNN.

Spam Stopper

Spam Stopper

This allows you to validate first names and last names in seperate fields. Instead of validating a full name in one field.

Updated on 7 Jun 2005 -- Matches major credit cards including: Visa (length 16, prefix 4); Mastercard (length 16, prefix 51-55); Diners Club/Carte Blanche (length 14, prefix 36, 38, or 300-305); Discover (length 16, prefix 6011); American Express (length 15, prefix 34 or 37). Saves the card type as a named group to facilitate further validation against a "card type" checkbox in a program. All 16 digit formats are grouped 4-4-4-4 with an optional hyphen or space between each group of 4 digits. The American Express format is grouped 4-6-5 with an optional hyphen or space between each group of digits. Formatting characters must be consistant, i.e. if two groups are separated by a hyphen, all groups must be separated by a hyphen for a match to occur.

Regular expression for validating a person's full name. Matches on two general formats: 1) first second third last (where first, second, and third names are optional and all present are separated by a space); 2) last, first second third (where second and third are optional, last is followed immediately by a comma and a space, and second, and third, if present, are separated by a space from each other and from first). First corresponds to surname and last corresponds to family name. Each name part is captured to a named group to facilitate program manipulation. Each name part must begin with an uppercase letter, followed by zero or more lowercase letters, except for the last name. Last name must begin with an uppercase letter, followed by one or more lowercase letters, but will match exceptions formatted like the following: McD..., MacD..., O'R... Only format is validated, not spelling. NOTE: This regular expression uses positive and negative regex lookahead to determine the general format of the name, i.e. the presence or the absence of the comma determines the general format that will match. Furthermore, this initial version is not designed to accommodate titles and things like "3rd".