Question

I’m struggling with a regex problem.
The requirement is for decimals to 2 places, non zero and not negative.

Its the non-zero thats getting me.

Anything such as 0.01, 0.99, 99999999.99 is allowed
However negative numbers and also 0, 0.0 or 0.00 is not allowed…

I thought I was getting somewhere but this is wrong

^(?!(0)|(0\.0)|(0\.00))[+]?\d+(\.\d|\.\d[0-9])?$

It matches the decimal places and positive numbers fine but I’m attempting to not match if it finds 0, 0.0 or 0.00 but the above looks for a suffix and thats not right as it goes wrong for 0.1, 0.01 etc

Any regex experts out there?

Answer 1

The error you have made is that you aren’t anchoring the lookahead. Your regular expression disallows anything that starts with a zero. Try this instead:

^(?!(?:0|0\.0|0\.00)$)[+]?\d+(\.\d|\.\d[0-9])?$
                    ^
                 anchored

You could simplify \.\d|\.\d[0-9] to \.\d[0-9]?.

I also don’t understand why you sometimes use \d and sometimes [0-9]. Be consistent.