Javascript regex to match a person's height

Question

Hi,

I need a javascript regex pattern to match a person's height to check if the input is valid. Here are some sample input:

5' 9"

6'

5'8"

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Something like:

\d'(?:\s*\d+'')?

The second part refers to optional part of the heigth.

Remove the + if you want only one digit.

\b\d'(?:\s*\d+'')?\b

can also be used to detect that pattern within a text (avoid detecting 1234'45 as an heigth for... a person?!)

You can test that regexp here for javascript.

Answer 2

^\d'\s?(\d{1,2}")?$

Tested here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html

Answer 3

If you want to make sure that no one mucks around with it, you could limit it to sensible ranges, eg: 3' to 7'11''

/^(3-7)'(?:\s*(?:1[01]|0-9)(''|"))?$/

I always thought that the "inches" mark was a double quote ("), compared to VonC's answer where he put it as two single quotes (''), so this regex takes both into consideration.

Answer 4

Maybe something like:

^(\d{1,5})\'((\s?)(-?)(\s?)([0-9]|(1[0-1]))\")?$

see: here

Answer 5

Ok. Thanks for all your input. Wow, that was fast, Big time.

Anyway, I've tested all your regex and it seems Ruben's answer passed all my test input. Thanks a lot for that mate.

So here's the one that I need:

^(\d{1,5})\'((\s?)(-?)(\s?)([0-9]|(1[0-1]))\")?$