alphanumeric

Check if the entered text uses only English letters

I am working on an iPhone application and need to make sure the entered text is composed of only a to z and numbers. I don't want the user to use other languages letters like those with accents or dots above them. EDIT: I am new to this RegEx, so if you please give me a code or a link, i will be really thankful. ...

SQL Order Alphabetically without preceding zeros for numbers less than 10

Is it possible to order alphabetically in mySQL in the following fashion: A1 A2 A3 A5 A10 A11 A20 A23 A24 Unfortunately the order that I am getting is ordered as seen below here. Notice how any number before A10 aren't grouped together? A1 A10 A11 A12 A2 < A2 A20 A23 A24 A3 < A3 A5 < A5 Note: These alphanumeric strings are a...

Regular expression for accepting alphnumeric characters (6-10 chars) .NET, C#

I am building a user registration form using C# with .NET. I have a requirement to validate user entered password fields. Validation requirement is as below. It should be alphanumeric (a-z , A-Z , 0-9) It should accept 6-10 characters (minimum 6 characters, maximum 10 characters) With at least 1 alphabet and number (example: stack1ove...

Simple regex url-related matching help

Hi, Take the following URI: http:\/\/.*\.google\.com/search/results\.php* I am simply trying to match all single forward slashes ( / ) between two alphanumeric characters in a given URI. In the case above, the two just before search and results. Could you point me in the right direction? EDIT The intention is to do search and repla...

PHP and c#: How to generate alphanumeric id for web content?

I want a script in PHP and c# which will generate id's like the following sites are doing: Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdAE3cWlmHw is doing it like OdAE3cWlmHw Bit.ly http://bit.ly/2pUswX doing it like 2pUswX What will be the function to generate such type of unique id's in PHP and c#? ...

Regex for alphanumeric

I've this PHP regular expression: $username = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]/i', '', $username); It allows only A-Z and 0-9. How can I allow ., - and _ as well? ...

Generate random letters and numbers together

Generate 6 characters: the first character is randomly generated from the alphabets with odd ordering in the alphabet list (A, C, E, …, Y) the second character is randomly generated from the alphabets with even ordering in the alphabet list (B, D, F, …, Z) the third character is randomly generated from alphabet list (A to Z) each of the ...

Python code to use a regular expression to make sure a string is alphanumeric plus . - _

Hi, I looked and searched and couldn't find what I needed although I think it should be simple (if you have any Python experience, which I don't). Given a string, I want to verify, in Python, that it contains ONLY alphanumeric characters: a-zA-Z0-9 and . _ - examples: Accepted: bill-gates Steve_Jobs Micro.soft Rejected: Bill...

letters or numbers only in a password with jquery

Hi, I found this code for alphanumeric check ("Letters, numbers, spaces or underscores") but I want to change so I will be able to write only letters or numbers. Can anyone tell me how to change this code: function(value, element) { return this.optional(element) || /^\w+$/i.test(value);} Thanks! Greg ...

How to Sort Number in Alphanumeric with C#? I have to Sort only Vehicle no in the Parking Area NOT PREFIX and SUFIX Letter

Data: SHC 111U,SHB 22x,, SHA 5555G I need Out Put: SHB 22X, SHC 111U, SHA 5555G Any Reference Document Please Send To me ...

Generate a random alphanumeric string in cocoa

Hey there, I know this can't be that hard. I've searched, but I can't seem to find a simple solution. I want to call a method, pass it the length and have it generate a random alphanumeric string. Any ideas? Are there any utility libraries out there that may have a bunch of these types of functions? Thanks, Howie ...

XSLT Sort Alphabetically & Numerically Problem

I have a group of strings ie g:lines = '9,1,306,LUCY,G,38,12' I need the output to be in XSLT 1.0: 1,9,12,38,306,G,LUCY This is my current code: <xsl:for-each select="$all_alerts[g:problem!='normal_service'][g:service='bus']"> <xsl:sort select="g:line"/> <xsl:sort select="number(g:line)" data-type="number"/> <xsl:value-of selec...

alphanumeric and special character sorting

Hi ppl, I wanted to know the different standards of sorting. To be more specific take the sample set: (Please note there's capitals, small letters, special characters, null values and numbers here) A a 3F Zx - 1Ad NULL How would the Oracle Database sort this by default? How would LINQ sort this by default? How would db2 sort this...

Remove leading zero's from alphanumeic text

I've seen questions to prefix zeros here in SO. But not the other way !! Can you guys suggest me how to remove the leading zeros in alphanumeric text. Are there any built-in APIs or do I need to write a method to trim the leading zero's? Example: 01234 converts to 1234 0001234a converts to 1234a 001234-a converts to 1234-a 101234 rema...

REGEX rejecting simple alphamumeric

I don't get it; this should be simple: Why does this text box entry: Foo 2010 Validated by this REGEX: ValidationExpression="^[a-zA-Z0-9 -_!]+$" Throw an invalid entry error? It is intended to allow alphamumerics, spaces, dashes, underscores and exclamation marks. REGEX gives me a headache ... ...

php encrypting an integer to get only alphanumeric characters?

When I use some of php's encryption functions, I end up getting a few characters I don't want (+, /, =). The problem is that my application doesn't allow these in the url. I'm wondering if there's a good way of encrypting an integer and having only alphanumeric characters in the result? I'm trying to pass some data through the url. I kno...

Reg exp to replace the whole word if any word contains any non alphanumeric character or space

e.g string = "This is a re@lly long long,long! sentence"; becomes string = "This is a long sentence"; Basically so all non-alphanumeric words or removed keeping spaces in tacked Any ideas? ...

Alphanumeric Order By in Mysql

Hi, How can i make only numeric order by when the column containing alphanumeric characters in mysql ? column (name) is unique field. my table contains the records, id name 1 ab001 2 ab010 3 aa002 4 ac004 5 ba015 6 ba006 7 aa005 8 ac003 The results must be like this, id name 1 ab001 3 aa002 8 ac003 4 ac0...

How to map (large) integer on (small in size( alphanumeric string with PHP? (Cantor?)

Dear all, I can't figure out how to optimally do the following in PHP: In a database, I have messages with a unique ID, like 19041985. Now, I want to refer to these messages in a short-url service but not using generated hashes but by simply 'calculate' the original ID. In other words, for example: http://short.url/sYsn7 should let me ...

RegEx (in JavaScript find/replace) - match non-alphanumeric characters but ignore - and +

We have been using the following js/regex to find and replace all non-alphanumeric characters apart from - and + outputString = outputString.replace(/[^\w|^\+|^-]*/g, ""); However it doesn't work entirely - it doesn't replace the ^ and | characters. I can't help but wonder if this is something to do with the ^ and | being used as meta-...