I'm looking for create RegEx pattern
- 8 characters
[a-zA_Z]
- must contains only one digit in any place of string
I created this pattern:
^(?=.*[0-9].*[0-9])[0-9a-zA-Z]{8}$
This pattern works fine but i want only one digit allowed. Example:
aaaaaaa6 match
aaa7aaaa match
aaa88aaa don't match
aaa884aa don't match
aaawwaaa don't match
You could instead use:
^(?=[0-9a-zA-Z]{8})[^\d]*\d[^\d]*$
The first part would assert that the match contains 8 alphabets or digits. Once this is ensured, the second part ensures that there is only one digit in the match.
EDIT: Explanation:
- The anchors
^
and $
denote the start and end of string.
(?=[0-9a-zA-Z]{8})
asserts that the match contains 8 alphabets or digits.
[^\d]*\d[^\d]*
would imply that there is only one digit character and remaining non-digit characters. Since we had already asserted that the input contains digits or alphabets, the non-digit characters here are alphabets.
If you want a non regex solution, I wrote this for a small project :
public static bool ContainsOneDigit(string s)
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s) || s.Length != 8)
return false;
int nb = 0;
foreach (char c in s)
{
if (!Char.IsLetterOrDigit(c))
return false;
if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') // just thought, I could use Char.IsDigit() here ...
nb++;
}
return nb == 1;
}