Question

I have used an expression for validating a positive number as follows:

^\d*\.{0,1}\d+$

when I give it an input of -23, it will mark input as negative, but when I give it an input of +23, it will mark it as invalid number!

what is the problem?

Can anyone give a solution that With +23 it will return (positive)?

Answer 1

Have you considered to use anything beside regular expressions?

If you are using the jQuery Validation Plugin you could create a custom validation method using the Validator/addMethod function:

$.validator.addMethod('positiveNumber',
    function (value) { 
        return Number(value) > 0;
    }, 'Enter a positive number.');

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Edit: Since you want only regular expressions, try this one:

^\+?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+$

Explanation:

• Begin of string (^)
• Optional + sign (\+?)
• The number integer part ([0-9]*)
• An optional dot (\.?)
• Optional floating point part ([0-9]+)
• End of string ($)