Regular Expression

[Øyvind Isaksen]

Can anyone please help me make i regular expression (asp.net / vb.net) that
check if a password is more than 5 digit/char?

Example passwords:
whK5v = valid password
hd3 = invalid password
lksds883 = valid password
..
..
..

Thanks

 

[Fao, Sean]

Can anyone please help me make i regular expression (asp.net / vb.net) that
check if a password is more than 5 digit/char?

Why use regular expressions? Just check the length. Or do you have
more criteria?

Hope that helps,

 

[Øyvind Isaksen]

Yes, but how do I check this length with regular expression? Isn't that the
way to do it?

Thanks for your reply,
Best regards
Isaksen

 

[Guest]

I use the following:

/\S{6,}/

 

[David Veeneman]

You shouldn't have to use a regular expression to get the length of the
password. The easiest way to get it is to put the password in a string (or
read the text property of a text box) and get its length, like this.

int passwordLength = textBoxPassword.Text.Length

Hope that helps.

 

[john smith]

Yes, but how do I check this length with regular expression? Isn't that the
way to do it?

Thanks for your reply,
Best regards
Isaksen

Too much overhead for something that doesn't require it (only a simple
basic string operation is needed - like David answered). Regex'es are
intended to match against complex patterns, not check string lengths.

 

[Øyvind Isaksen]

Thanks for your tips, now I know how to do it

Best regards,
Isaksen