Java - Regex - Months requiring 1-12

Question

I'm trying to build a regex for a field containing the number of months, of course, this needs to be only numbers 1-12. However, new to regex this is a bit new to me and I just need to check I'm right. It seems to work alright. Although, am I correct in assuming the range here 1-12 allows any number in this range, I only ask as I've only ever seen it done with 0-9 before. ``` [1-12]{1,2} ```

Accepted Answer

This might do. Two digits or one digit

```
1[0-2]|[1-9]
```

Edit: If you're worried about numbers like 55 use this:

```
^(1[0-2]|[1-9])$
```

Adding the `^` and `$` means start and end of string. Use https://regex101.com as a good learning tool.

Java - Regex - Months requiring 1-12

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