Java Regex of String start with number and fixed length
java, regex
Solution
Like already answered here, the simplest way is just removing the `+`:
^123\\d{9}$
or
^123\\d{6}$
Depending on what you need exactly.
You can also use another, a bit more complicated and generic approach, a negative lookahead:
(?!.{10,})^123\\d+$
Explanation:
This: `(?!.{10,})` is a negative look-ahead (`?=` would be a positive look-ahead), it means that if the expression after the look-ahead matches this pattern, then the overall string doesn't match. Roughly it means: The criteria for this regular expression is only met if the pattern in the negative look-ahead doesn't match.
In this case, the string matches only if `.{10}` doesn't match, which means 10 or more characters, so it only matches if the pattern in front matches up to 9 characters.
A positive look-ahead does the opposite, only matching if the criteria in the look-ahead also matches.
Just putting this here for curiosity sake, it's more complex than what you need for this.
Problem
I made a regular expression for checking the length of String , all characters are numbers and start with number e.g 123 Following is my expression ``` REGEX =^123\\d+{9}$"; ``` But it was unable to check the length of String. It validates those strings only their length is 9 and start with 123. But if I pass the String 1234567891 it also validates it. But how should I do it which thing is wrong on my side.