Setting a minimum maximum character count for any character using a regular expression

Question

I am trying to write a regular expression that will be used on a text box to validate its contents to see if it is between 1 and 35  The characters within the text box can be anything  numeric  alpha  punctuation  white space  etc  Here is what I have so far         - 0-9a-zA-Z         s  1 35     As you can see  I have to list out all characters  Is there an easier way to say  all  characters

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If you want to set Min 1 count and no Max length      1

User · Answer

Yes     dot  would match any character  Use      1 35

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It s usually the metacharacter   when not inside a character class   So use    1 35    However  dot does not include newlines unless the dot-all modifier is applied against it   You can use    S s  1 35   without any modifiers  and this includes newlines as well

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Like this     The   means any character except newline  which sometimes is but often isn t included  check your regex flavour    You can rewrite your expression as    1 35    which should match any line of length 1-35

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If you also want to match newlines  then you might want to use     s S  1 35     depending on the regex engine    Otherwise  as others have said  you should used     1 35

[regex] Setting a minimum/maximum character count for any character using a regular expression

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