Below is my regex for matching 2 digit where tens place value is 2 or 3 and it is working fine.
^(?=[2,4])\d{1,2}$
As soon as I add the regex for matching single digit in above regex , It started matching single digit and as well all 2 digit number.
^(?=\d|[2,4])\d{1,2}$
I want below sample input to be matched.
0
1
2
3
24
44
48
29
28
Below not to be matched.
99
11
33
55
77
Also It will great help if I would get to know why my regex is not working.
CodePudding user response：
Try this: ^(\d|[2,4]\d)$
Test regex here: https://regex101.com/r/aZo7fK/1
^(\d|[2,4]\d)$
^ matches the start of string
(\d|[2,4]\d) matches either a single digit(0-9) or a two digit number which starts with either 2 or 4
$ matches the end of the string
- This matches either a single digit(0-9) number or a two digit number which starts with either 2 or 4.
CodePudding user response：
You get a difference in matches as the positive lookahead asserts that there must be to the right what you specify. In there first pattern that is either 2 4 or , and in the second case just a single digit.
You don't have a comma in your example data, so in that case you can match an optional 2 or 4 using just [24]? followed by a digit without any lookarounds.
^[24]?\d$
See a regex demo.
CodePudding user response：
I suggest
^[2,4]?[0-9]$
pattern; where
^ - anchor, start of the text
[2,4]? - optional 2 or 4 digit for tens
[0-9] - mandatory digit 0..9 for units
$ - anchor, end of the text
Edit: Now, let's have a look at your current patterns; the first is
^(?=[2,4])\d{1,2}$
Here
(?=[2,4]) - look ahead for 2 or 4
\d{1,2} - one or two digits
as we can see 3 doesn't match: look ahead fails to find 2 or 4. As for your second attempt
^(?=\d|[2,4])\d{1,2}$
pattern, where
(?=\d|[2,4]) - look ahead for ANY digit (note, that |[2,4] is redundant)
\d{1,2} - one or two digits
the pattern matches too many texts; technically it matches any one or two digit numbers, e.g. for:
79
we have
(?=\d|[2,4]) - look ahead - succeeds with 7
\d{1,2} - one or two digits - succeeds with 79