Regex validation

ProForma Text Fields are able to perform validation on a huge variety of text patterns using Regex validation. 

Regex's (also known as Regular Expressions) are sequences of characters that define a search pattern in text. They can be used to validate text based on complex criteria, and match common text patterns like phone numbers and IP addresses. Regular expressions are flexible and powerful enough to match virtually any text based pattern you could want to include in a ProForma form. 


Using Regex in ProForma

When you create a text question, along with word/character limits, you can validate for Regex pattern matching.  To validate a field with a Regex pattern, click the Must match pattern check box. Next, add the expression you want to validate against. Then add the message your users will see if the validation fails.


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Description Property

You can save time for your users by including formatting instructions or examples in the question description. 


Once you have created a form that uses Regex validation, be sure to test it. When the form is submitted, ProForma will ensure that the Regex is valid. It the regex is not valid, you will see a message that says, "The regex pattern on this question is not valid. Answer unable to be validated".  At this point, you need to return to the form builder and fix the regex pattern. If your form is deployed with invalid regex, then users will not be able to submit the form.

Basics

The Regex engine used by ProForma is based on the JavaScript Regex Engine. 

Character classes

名前

説明

Example Pattern

Example Match

Character Classes

.

Dot (wildcard)

any character except newline

.

proforma is great

\d

Digit

Matches any digit character (0-9). Equivalent to [0-9].

file_\d\d

file_25

\w

Word

Matches any word character (alphanumeric & underscore). Only matches low-ascii characters (no accented or non-roman characters). Equivalent to [A-Za-z0-9_]

\w-\w\w\w

A-b_1

\s

Whitespace

White space: space, tab, newline

a\sb\sc

a b

c

\D

Not digit

Matches any character that is not a digit character (0-9). Equivalent to [^0-9].

\D

these-are-letters

\W

Not word

Matches any character that is not a word character (alphanumeric & underscore). Equivalent to [^A-Za-z0-9_]

\W

12345

\S

Not whitespace

Matches any character that is not a whitespace character (spaces, tabs, line breaks).

\S

anything-without-whitespace

Ranges and Sets

[abc]

Character set

Match any character in the set.

[airj]

jira

[^abc]

Negated set

Match any character that is not in the set.

[airj]

confluence

[a-g]

Range

Matches a character having a character code between the two specified characters inclusive.

[g-s]

ghijklmnopqrs

[^a-g]

Not range

Matches a character not in the range. 

[^g-s]

abcdeftuvwxyz

アンカー

^

Beginning

Matches the beginning of the string. This matches a position, not a character.

^\w+

she sells seashells

$

End

Matches the end of the string. This matches a position, not a character.

\w+$

she sells seashells

\b

Word boundary

Matches a word boundary position between a word character and non-word character or position (start / end of string)

s\b

she sells seashells

\B

Not word boundary

Matches any position that is not a word boundary. This matches a position, not a character.

s\B

she sells seashells

Groups & Lookaround

(abc)

Capturing group

Groups multiple tokens together and creates a capture group for extracting a substring or using a backreference.

(ha)+

hahaha hahah!

\1

Numeric reference

Matches the results of a capture group. For example \1 matches the results of the first capture group & \3 matches the third.

(\w)a\1

hah dad bad dab gag gab

(?=abc)

Positive lookahead

Matches a group after the main expression without including it in the result.

\d(?=px)

1pt 2px 3em 4px

(?!abc)

Negative lookahead

Specifies a group that can not match after the main expression (if it matches, the result is discarded).

\d(?!px)

1pt 2px 3em 4px

Quantifiers & Alternation

+

プラス

Matches 1 or more of the preceding token.

b\w+

b be bee beer beers

*

スター

Matches 0 or more of the preceding token.

b\w*

b be bee beer beers

{1,3}

Quantifier

Matches the specified quantity of the previous token. {1,3} will match 1 to 3. {3} will match exactly 3. {3,} will match 3 or more.

b\w{2,3}

b be bee beer beers

?

Lazy

Makes the preceding quantifier lazy, causing it to match as few characters as possible. By default, quantifiers are greedy, and will match as many characters as possible.

b\w+?

be bebeer beers

|

Alternation

Acts like a boolean OR. Matches the expression before or after the |.

It can operate within a group, or on a whole expression. The patterns will be tested in order.


b(a|e|i)d

bad bud bod bed bid

Common Examples

Regular expressions are great for validating common input types in ProForma forms. ProForma currently includes validation for email addresses and URLs out-of-the-box. Further validation formats can be built using regex to make sure your forms always capture correctly formatted data. 

Type of Input

パターン

Example Match

日付の形式

^(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[\/](0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])[\/](19|20)\d{2}$

10/2/2019

01/02/2019

10/2/19

10\1/2019

USD currency

^(\$)(\d)+

10 ドル

100000 ドル

$$$10

10$

$1.50

10,000 ドル

IPv4 address

\b(?:(?:2(?:[0-4][0-9]|5[0-5])|[0-1]?[0-9]?[0-9])\.){3}(?:(?:2([0-4][0-9]|5[0-5])|[0-1]?[0-9]?[0-9]))\b

192.168.0.1

255.255.255.255

192.168.0.1256.1.1

256.256.256.256

電話番号

^\s*(?:\+?(\d{1,3}))?([-. (]*(\d{3})[-. )]*)?((\d{3})[-. ]*(\d{2,4})(?:[-.x ]*(\d+))?)\s*$

0400123000

+61 0400000000

610400000000+++

Advanced Usage

As stated above, the basics of regular expressions can be combined to achieved very useful input validation. Here are some examples of advanced pattern matches using regular expressions.

Type of Input

パターン

Example Match

The letter "C" and 7 numeric characters

^C\d{7}$

C0000001

Alphanumeric with spaces allowed.

Max length: 20 characters

^[\w\d\s]{1,20}$

12345678912345678912

123456789123456789123

abcdefghijklmnopqrst

abcdefghijklmnopqrstu

Valid email address.

Max length: 80 characters

^(?=.{1,81}$)[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+\.\w{2,4}$

placeholder@example.com

placeholder@example

placeholder@@@@example.com

Country extension prefixed with a + and number with , no spaces, include area local area code
Max length: 30 characters

^(?=.{1,30}$)\s*(?:\+?(\d{1,3}))?([-.(]*(\d{3})[-.)]*)?((\d{3})[-.]*(\d{2,4})(?:[-.x]*(\d+))?)\s*$

+1-(800)-123-4567

+7 555 1234567

123-89-01

202 555 4567

Alphanumeric according to local reference table

^[\u0410-\u042F]+[\u0410-\u042F]$

АБВГДЕЖЗ

hello

Alphanumeric
Max length: 250 characters

^\w{1,250}$

12345678weqweasdsad123123

2 letters, underline, 3 numeric

^[A-z]{2}_[0-9]{3}$

DK_003

ABC_000

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