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Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^07([\d]{3})[(\D\s)]?[\d]{3}[(\D\s)]?[\d]{3}$
Description	UK Mobile phone regular expression. I usually run this against a telephone field to split out landlines and mobile numbers.
Matches	07976444333 | 07956-514333 | 07988-321-213
Non-Matches	+44 07976444333 | 08956-444-444
Author	Rating: Daren Salter

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	<script[^>]*>[\w|\t|\r|\W]*</script>
Description	this pattern can find all lines of script in HTML code from open to close tag range
Matches	<script language=javascript>document.write("one");</script>
Non-Matches	--
Author	Rating: Bassel Issa

Title	Test Details US ZIP (5 or 5+4)
Expression	^\d{5}$|^\d{5}-\d{4}$
Description	This regular expression will match either a 5 digit ZIP code or a ZIP+4 code formatted as 5 digits, a hyphen, and another 4 digits. Other than that, this is just a really really long description of a regular expression that I'm using to test how my front page will look in the case where very long expression descriptions are used.
Matches	55555-5555 | 34564-3342 | 90210
Non-Matches	434454444 | 645-32-2345 | abc
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	(a|b|c).(a.b)*.b+.c
Description
Matches	autbfc
Non-Matches	attc
Author	Rating: Daniel Hou

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?!.*\s).{4,8}$
Description	Password expresion that requires one lower case letter, one upper case letter, one digit, 6-13 length, and no spaces. This is merely an extension of a previously posted expression by Steven Smith ([email protected]) . The no spaces is new.
Matches	1agdA*$# | 1agdA*$# | 1agdA*$#
Non-Matches	wyrn%@*&$# f | mbndkfh782 | BNfhjdhfjd&*)%#$)
Author	Rating: Jeremy Samuel

Title	Test Details ZIP+4 - XXXXX-XXXX
Expression	^\d{5}-\d{4}$
Description	Numeric and hyphen 5+4 ZIP code match for ZIP+4.
Matches	22222-3333 | 34545-2367 | 56334-2343
Non-Matches	123456789 | A3B 4C5 | 55335
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	\(([0-9]{2}|0{1}((x|[0-9]){2}[0-9]{2}))\)\s*[0-9]{3,4}[- ]*[0-9]{4}
Description	Match diferent styles for brazilian Phone number code. Only DDD (12), complete DDD (012), complete DDD + Telephony Company (0xx12) plus 3 or 4 digits (city code) plus 4 digits (phone number).
Matches	(12) 123 1234 | (01512) 123 1234 | (0xx12) 1234 1234
Non-Matches	12 123 1234 | (012) 123/1234 | (012) 123 12345
Author	Rating: Samuel Mota

Title	Test Details Five Integer US ZIP Code
Expression	^\d{5}$
Description	Matches 5 numeric digits, such as a zip code.
Matches	33333 | 55555 | 23445
Non-Matches	abcd | 1324 | as;lkjdf
Author	Rating: Steven Smith

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[a-z]+[0-9]*[a-z]+$
Description
Matches	aaa111bbb
Non-Matches	111aaa
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Nitesh Waghela

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[^#]([^ ]+ ){6}[^ ]+$
Description	We've come across the situation where we had to extract the IIS-Log entries without the header information. The data is far more complex than the sample given. Explanation: ^[^#] = lines not beginnin with # ([^ ]+ ){6} = 6 times no space until one space [^ ]+ = no spaces allowed... $ = ...until end of line For further explanation don't hesitate to write E-Mail.
Matches	1111 2222 33 44444 55 6 7777
Non-Matches	#IIS Logfile header
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Volker Roth

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^\s*(((\d*\.?\d*[0-9]+\d*)|([0-9]+\d*\.\d*) )\s*[xX]\s*){2}((\d*\.?\d*[0-9]+\d*)|([0-9]+\d*\.\d*))\s*$
Description	This validates Length times Width times Height measurements, which consists of 3 whole or decimal numbers separated by an x.
Matches	1.1 x 4.35 x 5.0 | 1 x 2 x 3 | 4.75 x 300.25 x 0
Non-Matches	z.56 x 6 x 7 | 1 xx 2 x 3 | 1 by 2 by 3
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Rod Early

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[AaWaKkNn][a-zA-Z]?[0-9][a-zA-Z]{1,3}$
Description	Simple match for U.S. Amateur Radio Call signs Must start with an A,K,N or W. 1 or two prefix letters (not case sensitive), Exactly one zone digit, One to three suffix digits( not case sensitive). 73
Matches	kd6dun | W9OXZ | kb8ae
Non-Matches	kdd90bz | de7bgw | WV7BXQ5
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. David Tersigni

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[\u0081-\uFFFF]{1,}$
Description	Double byte charactors validator. The rule applies to double byte charactor input validation.
Matches	??? | ????
Non-Matches	ABC | ;&#F;
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Max Lu

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(?!^(PRN|AUX|CLOCK\$|NUL|CON|COM\d|LPT\d|\..*)(\..+)?$)[^\x00-\x1f\\?*:\";|/]+$
Description	Checks for a valid windows file name (Must be used with the case-insensitive option Checks that the file has at lease one char, does not contain any invalid characters and does not have a reserved word as a file name. "If you see a " in the regex replace it with a " character"
Matches	test.txt | test.jpg.txt | a&b c.bmp
Non-Matches	CON | .pdf | test:2.pdf
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Andre Van Der Merwe

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	([A-Zäöü0-9\/][^a-z\:\,\(\)]*[A-Zäöü0-9])($|[\.\:\,\;\)\-\ \+]|s\b)
Description	Used to dynamically find acronyms in a sentence. The first pair of brackets gets the acronym, the second gets the text after the acronym.
Matches	ASN.1 | REGEXP
Non-Matches	***
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Eric Lewis

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(s-|S-){0,1}[0-9]{3}\s?[0-9]{2}$
Description	Validates swedish zipcodes (postnr) with or without space between groups. With leading s- or not. Can be disconnected by removing ''(s-|S-){0,1}''.
Matches	12345 | 932 68 | S-621 46
Non-Matches	5367 | 425611 | 31 545
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Tommy Ullberg

Title	Test Details Font Sizes
Expression	^\d+\x20*([pP][xXtT])?$
Description	It can be used to validate Font Sizes. Thanks to Gideon Engelberth for the shorter version of my original expression.
Matches	1px | 100 PT | 20Px
Non-Matches	1abc | px | 1 sdfs
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Vincent Faller

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[A-Za-z]{2}[0-9]{6}[A-Za-z]{1}$
Description	UK National Insurance Number validation. Especially useful to validate through clientside/server side script on a website.
Matches	SP939393H | PX123456D | SW355667G
Non-Matches	12SP9393H | S3P93930D | 11223344SP00ddSS
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Santosh Potadar

Title	Test Details Resale License Number (CA)
Expression	^((([sS][r-tR-Tx-zX-Z])\s*([sx-zSX-Z])?\s*([a-zA-Z]{2,3}))?\s*(\d\d)\s*-?\s*(\d{6,7}))$
Description	California Resale License number validator. Validates Letters and Numbers or Number only. Letters: First 2 letters can be SR, SS, ST , SX, SY, SZ (TAT Code) Next optional letter can be S,X,Y,Z. Next letters must be a minimum of two and a maximum of 3 (District Code). Numbers: Can be 8-9 numbers. Numbers can be delimited with a hypen or spaces after the first 2 numbers. Note: I use () to extract the information I want for use in other scripts.
Matches	SR BH 97-578613 | 97578613 | SRXBH97578613
Non-Matches	RR BH 97-578613 | 9757861 | SRAABH 97-578613
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Dean Dal Bozzo

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	(?s)(?:\e\[(?:(\d+);?)*([A-Za-z])(.*?))(?=\e\[|\z)
Description	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
Matches	Hello | Test | 
Non-Matches	abc
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Doug Moore