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Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[A-Z]{2}[0-9]{6}[A-DFM]{1}$
Description	UK National Insurance Number (NINO) validation. (The following modifications have been made: Only A to D are permitted as the last letter, and all letters should be in uppercase. For temporary numbers F and M are permitted for female and male holders.)
Matches	AB123456D | AB123456F | AB123456M
Non-Matches	AB123456E | ab123456d
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Peter Whyte

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	(\{\\f\d*)\\([^;]+;)
Description	This pattern returns the font section from an RTF document. The first parenthetical subexpression captures the font number, the second returns the actual font enumeration. Lame-o, but fun! :-)
Matches	{\f0\Some Font names here; | {\f1\fswiss\fcharset0\fprq2{\*\panose 020b0604020202020204}Arial; | {\f
Non-Matches	{f0fs20 some text}
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Joel Dooris

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	(("|')[a-z0-9\/\.\?\=\&]*(\.htm|\.asp|\.php|\.jsp)[a-z0-9\/\.\?\=\&]*("|'))|(href=*?[a-z0-9\/\.\?\=\&"']*)
Description	Will locate an URL in a webpage. It'll search in 2 ways - first it will try to locate a href=, and then go to the end of the link. If there is nu href=, it will search for the end of the file instead (.asp, .htm and so on), and then take the data between the "xxxxxx" or 'xxxxxx'
Matches	href="produktsida.asp?kategori2=218" | href="NuclearTesting.htm"
Non-Matches	U Suck
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Henric Rosvall

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	<[^>\s]*\bauthor\b[^>]*>
Description	This expression will match the corresponding XML/HTML elements opening and closing tags. Useful to handle documents fragments, without loading an XML DOM.
Matches	<author name="Daniel"> | </sch:author> | <pp:author name="Daniel"
Non-Matches	<other> | </authors> | <work>author</work>
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Daniel Cazzulino

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[A-Z]{1,2}[1-9][0-9]?[A-Z]? [0-9][A-Z]{2,}|GIR 0AA$
Description	Matches UK postcodes according to the following rules 1. LN NLL eg N1 1AA 2. LLN NLL eg SW4 0QL 3. LNN NLL eg M23 4PJ 4. LLNN NLL eg WS14 0JT 5. LLNL NLL eg SW1N 4TB 6. LNL NLL eg W1C 8LQ. Modifications: 1) Doesn't allow leading zeros in first part (outward) eg BT01 3RT is incorrect; it should be BT1 3RT. 2) Only allows uppercase letters, which is the preference of the UK Post Office. 3) Permits the only postcode to break the rules - GIR 0AA (for the old Girobank, now Alliance & Leicester bank, address)
Matches	G1 1AA | GIR 0AA | SW1 1ZZ
Non-Matches	BT01 3RT | G111 1AA
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Peter Whyte

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	@{2}((\S)+)@{2}
Description	This will match results in a template situation. For example: template reads Dear @@Name@@, .... would become Dear John, If you dont want to use the @@ change the @ to what ever characters you want.
Matches	@@test@@ | @@name@@ | @@2342@@
Non-Matches	@test@ | @@na me@@ | @@ name@@
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. john hamman

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^([0-1]([\s-./\\])?)?(\(?[2-9]\d{2}\)?|[2-9]\d{3})([\s-./\\])?(\d{3}([\s-./\\])?\d{4}|[a-zA-Z0-9]{7})$
Description	It checks for Valid US Phone numbers. Accepts ".",Space,\,/,- as delim.
Matches	1.222.333.1234 | 1-223-123-1232 | 12223334444
Non-Matches	1.1.123123.123 | 12-1322-112-31 | 11231321131
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Amit Deshpande

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^([0-1]([\s-./\\])?)?(\(?[2-9]\d{2}\)?|[2-9]\d{3})([\s-./\\])?([0-9]{3}([\s-./\\])?[0-9]{4}|[a-zA-Z0-9]{7}|([0-9]{3}[-][a-zA-Z0-9]{4}))
Description	USA Alhpanumeric Valid Phone numbers
Matches	1.222.333.1234 | 1-223-123-1232 | 1-888-425-DELL
Non-Matches	1.1.123123.123 | 12-1322-112-31 | 1-800-CALL-DEL
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Amit Deshpande

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	((?<strElement>(^[A-Z0-9-;=]*:))(?<strValue>(.*)))
Description	Usesful for importing vcards. Matches vcard elements and values.
Matches	BEGIN: | TEL;WORK;VOICE: | TEL:
Non-Matches	begin: | TEL;PREF;
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Karsten Grombach

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^<a\s+href\s*=\s*"http:\/\/([^"]*)"([^>]*)>(.*?(?=<\/a>))<\/a>$
Description	Regexp to find all external links in a HTML string. Can easily be modified to handle all/other links/protocols (like file/https/ftp). Uses lookahead assertions and non-greedy modifier to check for the end </a> but still allow html tags inbetween start and end A tag. Takes into account that there could be linebreaks and other nasty whitespace chars in the middle of the tag. I am using it to find all external links in embedded HTML code and change 1.the target of the link 2.insert a "Leaving Site" logo to illustrate you are leaving site.
Matches	<a href="http://www.mysite.com">my external link</a> | <a href="http:/
Non-Matches	<a href="myinternalpage.html">my internal link</a>
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Anders Rask

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	\({1}[0-9]{3}\){1}\-{1}[0-9]{3}\-{1}[0-9]{4}
Description
Matches	(111)-111-1111
Non-Matches	11111111111
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. s4 s

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(/w|/W|[^<>+?$%{}&])+$
Description	simple expression for excluding a given list of characters. simply change the contents of [^] to suite your needs. for example ^(/w|/W|[^&lt;&gt;])+$ would allow everything except the characters &lt; and &gt;.
Matches	John Doe Sr. | 100 Elm St., Suite 25 | Valerie's Gift Shop
Non-Matches	<h1>Hey</h1>
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Glenn Caccia

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(ac|AC|al|AL|am|AM|ap|AP|ba|BA|ce|CE|df|DF|es|ES|go|GO|ma|MA|mg|MG|ms|MS|mt|MT|pa|PA|pb|PB|pe|PE|pi|PI|pr|PR|rj|RJ|rn|RN|ro|RO|rr|RR|rs|RS|sc|SC|se|SE|sp|SP|to|TO)$
Description	Valida os todos Estados Brasileiros (UF) e o distrito Federal
Matches	AC | RJ | SP
Non-Matches	XX | AB | HJ
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Fernando Cerqueira

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^([1-9]{2}|[0-9][1-9]|[1-9][0-9])[0-9]{3}$
Description	Postcode check for Spain
Matches	12345 | 10234 | 01234
Non-Matches	00123
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Henk de Vries

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	(^\d{5}-\d{3}|^\d{2}.\d{3}-\d{3}|\d{8})
Description	Validar o do CEP Brasileiro com 8 posicoes podendo usar mascara . e - ou somente numeros
Matches	12.345-678 | 12345-678 | 12345678
Non-Matches	12.345678 | 12345-1 | 123
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Fernando Cerqueira

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3}$
Description	Postcode for Belgium
Matches	1234
Non-Matches	123 | 123A
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Henk de Vries

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^(F-)?((2[A|B])|[0-9]{2})[0-9]{3}$
Description	Postcode check for France (including colonies) ----- Edited; sorry I didn't know about Corsica, no offense :)
Matches	12345 | F-12345 | F-2B100
Non-Matches	F12345 | F-123456 | 123456
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Henk de Vries

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^([A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2}|[A-Z]{3}|[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][A-Z])( |-)[0-9][A-Z]{2}
Description	Checks whether the string specified is in the same format as the UK postcode format defined on: http://www.magma.ca/~djcl/postcd.txt It allows: A = Letter N = Number AN NAA, ANA NAA, ANN NAA, AAN NAA, AAA NAA (rare), AANN NAA, AANA NAA It gives the option to have the two parts of the uk postcode to be separated by a space or a hyphen. (restriction is set to all-capitals)
Matches	AA11 1AA | AA1A 1AA | A11-1AA
Non-Matches	111 AAA | 1AAA 1AA | A1AA 1AA
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Henk de Vries

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^((0?[1-9])|((1|2)[0-9])|30|31)$
Description	matches any day of month 0?1-31
Matches	01 | 12 | 31
Non-Matches	123 | 32 | abc
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Serafeim Zanikolas

Title	Test Details Pattern Title
Expression	^0[23489]{1}(\-)?[^0\D]{1}\d{6}$
Description	Regular Expression that validate a phone number inside israel.
Matches	03-6106666 | 036106666 | 02-5523344
Non-Matches	00-6106666 | 03-0106666 | 02-55812346
Author	Rating: Not yet rated. Al Val