Regex not taking

Question

Hello, I am trying to limit an address input in Survey123 by adding a constraint . I am using the regex below to achieve this goal.

regex(., "^(\d{1,})\s{1,}(North|South|East|West|N|S|E|W|NE|NW|SE|SW)\s{1,}(\w{1,})\s{1,}(\w{1,})((,{1}\s{1,})|\s{1,})(North|South|East|West|N|S|E|W|NE|NW|SE|SW),\s{1,}(\w{1,}),\s{1,}(\w{2}),\s{1,}(\d{5})$")

I used this same regex in a python script with success, so the logic is correct. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Am I missing something?

Note: The regex should accept an address with the following format: "111 N Street St N, City, OH, 44444"

AlfredBaldenweck · Answer

No, I mean you have

regex(., "^(\d{1,})\s{1,}

and you should have

regex(., "^(\d{1,})\s{1,}

ChaceCarpenter · Answer

If i'm understanding you correctly, you are saying I can replace a \s with an actual space? So my above regex would look like: regex(.,"^( [0-9]{1,}) {1,}(North|South|East|West|N|S|E|W|NE|NW|SE|SW) {1,}([[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,}) {1,}([[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,})(?:,{1} {1,}| {1,})(North|South|East|West|N|S|E|W|NE|NW|SE|SW), {1,}([[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,}), {1,}([[a-zA-Z0-9]{2}), {1,}( [0-9]{5})")

I also replaced \d with [0-9] and \w with [a-zA-Z0-9]

AlfredBaldenweck · Answer

It's probably the escaped backslashes. since then it's looking for the literal text "\s" instead of the space characters.

For python, you can avoid these by using r"\s", for S123 you can just put them in.

Here's one of mine

regex(., '^(WYWY\d{9})$|^(WY[A-Z]\d*[A-Z]?)$')