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Monday, September 29th, 2008 | Author: admin

Field

Expression

Description

Email

^([0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*@([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9})$

Validates an Email Address

URL

^(ht|f)tp(s?)\:\/\/[0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*(:(0-9)*)*(\/?)([a-zA-Z0-9\-\.\?\,\'\/\\\+&%\$#_]*)?$

Validates a URL

Name

^[a-zA-Z''-'\s]{1,40}$

Validates a name. Allows up to 40 uppercase and lowercase characters and a few special characters that are common to some names. You can modify this list.

Password

(?!^[0-9]*$)(?!^[a-zA-Z]*$)^([a-zA-Z0-9]{8,10})$

Validates a strong password. It must be between 8 and 10 characters, contain at least one digit and one alphabetic character, and must not contain special characters.

Non- negative integer

^\d+$

Validates that the field contains an integer greater than zero.

Currency (non- negative)

^\d+(\.\d\d)?$

Validates a positive currency amount. If there is a decimal point, it requires 2 numeric characters after the decimal point. For example, 3.00 is valid but 3.1 is not.

Currency (positive or negative) ^(-)?\d+(\.\d\d)?$ Validates for a positive or negative currency amount. If there is a decimal point, it requires 2 numeric characters after the decimal point.

Taken from MSDN article 998267