5 to 16 alpha or alphanumeric to include special characters such as:
◦*Hyphen ( – )
◦*Slash ( / )
◦*Backslash ( )
◦*Asterisk ( * )
◦*Dollar Sign ( $ )
◦*Period ( . )
◦*Ampersand ( & )
◦*Comma ( , )
◦*Number Sign ( # )
◦*Open Parenthesis ( ( )
◦*Closed Parenthesis ( ) )
◦*Colon ( : )
Current code example:
PASSWORD: {id: password, label: PASSWORD, name: PASSWORD, validationRegex: ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$, minLength: 5, maxLength: 16, errorMsg: message}
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Author: Marcus
ANSWER
This regular expressions pattern should work to validate that the string is between 5 to 16 characters long, and has alphanumeric only with the special symbols allowed. Escaping those symbols so it is interpreted by regex compiler as a literal.
^([a-zA-Z0-9!-\?\\/.\,\$*\&\:()]{5,16})$Results for the following samples of strings that pass the pattern and failed.
Passed
- thequickbrownfox
- !hello-world?
- /hi\/there\
- two
- ast*risk*
- $dollar$sign
- 192.168.0.1
- hello,world
- (xx&:xx)
- hashtag#allowed
- 1234567890123456
Failed
Falls short of 5 characters or over 16 characters, does not have those special characters in the pattern, and with spaces or other whitespace characters.
- abc1
- this%not@allowed
- iamoversixteencharacterslong
- spaces not allowed
- 12345678901234567