US State
^(?:(A[KLRZ]|C[AOT]|D[CE]|FL|GA|HI|I[ADLN]|K[SY]|LA|M[ADEINOST]|N[CDEHJMVY]|O[HKR]|P[AR]|RI|S[CD]|T[NX]|UT|V[AIT]|W[AIVY]))$
Zip Code
Matches 80523 and 80523-1000
^d{5}([-]d{4})?$
Campus Delivery Code
Matches four digits
^d{4}$
Phone Number
Matches phone numbers with or with out extensions, (555) 555-555 and (555) 555-5555 123
^+?(?d+)?(s|-|.)?d{1,3}(s|-|.)?d{4}[s]*[d]*$
Matches an email address
([a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+)@(([[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})
Website URL
Matches an URL (loosely, URL’s are hard to predict)
((https?):((//)|(\\))+wd:#@%/;$()~_?+-*)
Another that follows RFC Guidelines
(([w]+:)?//)?(([dw]|%[a-fA-fd]{2,2})+(:([dw]|%[a-fA-fd]{2,2})+)?@)?([dw][-dw]{0,253}[dw].)+[w]{2,4}(:[d]+)?(/([-+_~.dw]|%[a-fA-fd]{2,2})*)*(?(&?([-+_~.dw]|%[a-fA-fd]{2,2})=?)*)?
FTP URL
Matches an ftp address
((ftp?):((//)|(\\))+wd:#@%/;$()~_?+-*)
CSU ID
Matches a valid CSU ID
[8]d{8}
Image Validation (eg, using FileUpload control)
Matches a valid jpg, gif, or png file
^.+.((jpg)|(JPG)|(gif)|(GIF)|(jpeg)|(JPEG)|(png)|(PNG))$
GPA
Matches a valid GPA in US format (0.0 – 4.0)
^[0]|[0-3].(d?d?)|[4].[0]$
Tools
- Here’s a link to an easy-to-use (and free) regex tool – http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/expresso.aspx.
- Here’s another to an online regex library – http://regexlib.com
Basic HTML Tag Stripper:
/// <summary>
/// Strip all html tags, even the clean ones
/// </summary>
/// <param name="text"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string stripHTML(string text)
{
return Regex.Replace(text, @"<(.|n)*?>", string.Empty);
}
“Dirty” Word HTML (C# example):
/// <summary>
/// Strip dirty Word HTML
/// </summary>
/// <param name="text"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string stripWordHTML(string text)
{
////industrial grade word html cleaner
//courtesy of http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/01/cleaning-words-nasty-html.html
StringCollection sc = new StringCollection();
// get rid of unnecessary tag spans (comments and title)
sc.Add(@”<!–(w|W)+?–>”);
sc.Add(@”<title>(w|W)+?</title>”);
// Get rid of classes and styles
sc.Add(@”s?class=w+”);
sc.Add(@”s+style='[^’]+'”);
// Get rid of unnecessary tags
sc.Add(
@”<(meta|link|/?o:|/?style|/?div|/?std|/?head|/?html|body|/?body|/?span|![)[^>]*?>”);
// Get rid of empty paragraph tags
sc.Add(@”(<[^>]+>)+ (</w+>)+”);
// remove bizarre v: element attached to <img> tag
sc.Add(@”s+v:w+=””[^””]+”””);
// remove extra lines
sc.Add(@”(nr){2,}”);
foreach (string s in sc)
{
text = Regex.Replace(text, s, “”, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
}
return text;
}