topic Trouble with Regular Expressions in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/trouble-with-regular-expressions/m-p/45275#M251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Having trouble writing a regular expression to restrict inputs for a text field. &nbsp;I would like to restrict the values to xxxxx-xxx where the "x" are integers. &nbsp;From what I understand, {n} limits to "n" number of values (5 &amp; 3 in this case), however when testing in the form preview, the constraint is satisfied as long as there are "n" or more values. Is there something I am missing? &nbsp;I have attached my excel file, and included my expression below. &nbsp;Any help is much appreciated.</P><P></P><P>regex(.,'[0-9]{5}'+'-'+'[0-9]{3}')&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:32:11 GMT JackSackrider 2016-12-08T21:32:11Z Trouble with Regular Expressions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/trouble-with-regular-expressions/m-p/45275#M251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Having trouble writing a regular expression to restrict inputs for a text field. &nbsp;I would like to restrict the values to xxxxx-xxx where the "x" are integers. &nbsp;From what I understand, {n} limits to "n" number of values (5 &amp; 3 in this case), however when testing in the form preview, the constraint is satisfied as long as there are "n" or more values. Is there something I am missing? &nbsp;I have attached my excel file, and included my expression below. &nbsp;Any help is much appreciated.</P><P></P><P>regex(.,'[0-9]{5}'+'-'+'[0-9]{3}')&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:32:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/trouble-with-regular-expressions/m-p/45275#M251 JackSackrider 2016-12-08T21:32:11Z