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I am attempting to validate that the input into a textbox on a C# winforms conforms to a valid pattern.
The pattern must be a string that consists only of the following characters
I am looking at using the “Validating” event on the textbox to perform the validation but I am struggling with the correct Regular Expression to use – or maybe there’s a better way than using a Regular Expression.
The regex “[A-Z0-9_/]” should do it. Regex’s seem like the most obvious choice here (it’s a very simple validation), as long as you’re happy using them.
You may need to quote some of the special characters with ‘\’ depending on your language of choice. If you’d also like lower case letters to be allowed, then it’d be “[a-zA-Z0-9_/]”.
Alternatively, something like “(\w?\d?_?/?)+” might work – the \w matches any character, \d any digit. The ‘?’ matches the previous char 0 or 1 time while the + at the end allows multiple of these matches.