Regular Expression

[lmaggiulli]

Dear all, 

is there a regular expression that allow me to force the user to fill in at least one fixed words? Example: Comment field, the employee has to insert at leat the value "AAAAAA" or "BBBBB" but also could add other free text.

Thanks.

Lorenzo

[PoojaKumatkar · Accepted solution]

Hi @lmaggiulli ,

1. What are those fixed words that are allowed to use?

2. Also, just wondering, if you want to allow them to enter anything then what is the purpose of adding field validation? 

Try below:

Regular Expression - ^(AAAAAA|BBBBBB) - .*$

Note - 

• (AAAAAA|BBBBBB) - Matches either "AAAAAA" or "BBBBBB". Replace this with your fixed words.
• | is the OR operator, so it matches either of the two values.
• - - Ensures that there is a hyphen after "AAAAAA" or "BBBBBB".
• .* - Matches any characters (zero or more) after the hyphen (i.e., free text).

Testing Result: 

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