25+ useful and commonly used Regular Expressions

DEV Community · Dennis · 2026-08-15 개발(SW)

Regular Expressions (Regex) are expressions that define a search pattern. Regex can be implemented in various tasks including searching, replacing, validation and text processing/parsing. It is mostly known in the combination with the programming language Perl, but Regex are also supported by most other languages.

If you every want to really dive deep into the world of Regular Expressions, I’d recommend the book “Mastering Regular Expressions ” by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl.

Testing your regular expressions

There are times in which you can’t test your Regex while programming. Or you might just want to play around and test your Regex.
In any case, there are a few Regex tester online, where you can add sample data and build or test your regex. Some of them are:

Regex101
RegExr
Regex Tester

Commonly used

Digits

Whole numbers:

/^\\d+$/

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Decimal numbers:

/^\\d*\\.\\d+$/

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Whole and decimal numbers:

/^\\d*(\\.\\d+)?$/

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Negative or positive whole and decimal numbers:

/^-?\\d*(\\.\\d+)?$/

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Alphanumeric

Without space

/^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$/

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With Space

/^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*$/

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Username

Alphanumeric lowercase username that might contain

numbers
‘-‘ or ‘_’

and a length of 3-16 characters

/^[a-z0-9_-]{3,16}$/

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Email

Common email

/^([a-zA-Z0-9._%-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})*$/

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Uncommon email

e.g. [email protected]

/^([a-z0-9_\\.\\+-]+)@([\\da-z\\.-]+)\\.([a-z\\.]{2,6})$/

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RFC 5322

/(?(DEFINE)
    (?<addr_spec> (?&local_part) @ (?&domain) )
    (?<local_part> (?&dot_atom) | (?&quoted_string) | (?&obs_local_part) )
    (?<domain> (?&dot_atom) | (?&domain_literal) | (?&obs_domain) )
    (?<domain_literal> (?&CFWS)? \\[ (?: (?&FWS)? (?&dtext) )* (?&FWS)? \\] (?&CFWS)? )
    (?<dtext> [\\x21-\\x5a] | [\\x5e-\\x7e] | (?&obs_dtext) )
    (?<quoted_pair> \\\\ (?: (?&VCHAR) | (?&WSP) ) | (?&obs_qp) )
    (?<dot_atom> (?&CFWS)? (?&dot_atom_text) (?&CFWS)? )
    (?<dot_atom_text> (?&atext) (?: \\. (?&atext) )* )
    (?<atext> [a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*+\\/=?^_`{|}~-]+ )
    (?<atom> (?&CFWS)? (?&atext) (?&CFWS)? )
    (?<word> (?&atom) | (?&quoted_string) )
    (?<quoted_string> (?&CFWS)? " (?: (?&FWS)? (?&qcontent) )* (?&FWS)? " (?&CFWS)? )
    (?<qcontent> (?&qtext) | (?&quoted_pair) )
    (?<qtext> \\x21 | [\\x23-\\x5b] | [\\x5d-\\x7e] | (?&obs_qtext) )
    # comments and whitespace
    (?<FWS> (?: (?&WSP)* \\r\\n )? (?&WSP)+ | (?&obs_FWS) )
    (?<CFWS> (?: (?&FWS)? (?&comment) )+ (?&FWS)? | (?&FWS) )
    (?<comment> \\( (?: (?&FWS)? (?&ccontent) )* (?&FWS)? \\) )
    (?<ccontent> (?&ctext) | (?&quoted_pair) | (?&comment) )
    (?<ctext> [\\x21-\\x27] | [\\x2a-\\x5b] | [\\x5d-\\x7e] | (?&obs_ctext) )
    # obsolete tokens
    (?<obs_domain> (?&atom) (?: \\. (?&atom) )* )
    (?<obs_local_part> (?&word) (?: \\. (?&word) )* )
    (?<obs_dtext> (?&obs_NO_WS_CTL) | (?&quoted_pair) )
    (?<obs_qp> \\\\ (?: \\x00 | (?&obs_NO_WS_CTL) | \\n | \\r ) )
    (?<obs_FWS> (?&WSP)+ (?: \\r\\n (?&WSP)+ )* )
    (?<obs_ctext> (?&obs_NO_WS_CTL) )
    (?<obs_qtext> (?&obs_NO_WS_CTL) )
    (?<obs_NO_WS_CTL> [\\x01-\\x08] | \\x0b | \\x0c | [\\x0e-\\x1f] | \\x7f )
    # character class definitions
    (?<VCHAR> [\\x21-\\x7E] )
    (?<WSP> [ \\t] )
)
^(?&addr_spec)$/xmg

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Passwords

Moderate Password

Password with at least

1 lowercase letter
1 uppercase letter
1 number

and a minimum length of 8 characters.

Spaces allowed.

/(?=(.*[0-9]))((?=.*[A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z]))^.{8,}$/

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Spaces not allowed.

/^((?=\\S*?[A-Z])(?=\\S*?[a-z])(?=\\S*?[0-9]).{8,})\\S$/

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With optional special character and spaces not allowed

/^(?=.*\\d)(?=.*[a-zA-Z])[0-9a-zA-Z$&+,:;=?@#|'<>.-^*()%!]{8,}$/

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Strong Password

Passwords with at least

1 lowercase letter
1 uppercase letter
1 number
1 special character

and a minimum of 8 characters with spaces not allowed.

All special characters

/^(?=.*\\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[^\\w\\d\\s:])([^\\s]){8,}$/

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One of these special characters: !@#$%^&*()-=¡£+~.,<>/?;:'”|[]{}_

/^(?=.*\\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[\\!\\@\\#\\$\\%\\^\\&\\*\\(\\)\\-\\=\\¡\\£\\_\\+\\~\\.\\,\\<\\>\\/\\?\\;\\:\\'\\"\\\\\\|\\[\\]\\{\\}])([^\\s]){8,}$/

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Strong+ Password

Password with minimum

1 lowercase letter
1 uppercase letter
1 number
1 special character
12 characters

and does not contain certain words.

^(?=.*\\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^\\w\\s\\d:])(?=(?:([\\w\\d])\\1?(?!\\1\\1)))(?!(?=.*([Jj]ohn|[Dd]oe]|blabla))).{12,}$

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IP addresses

IPv4

/^(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1?\\d?\\d)(?:\\.(?!$)|$)){4}$/

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Private IPv4

/^(10(\\.(1?\\d\\d?|2([0-4]\\d?|5[0-5])))(?2)|172\\.(1[6-9]|2\\d|3[0-2])(?2)|192\\.168(?2))(?2)$/

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IPv6

/(?:(?:(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){6}|(?=(?:[A-F0-9]{0,4}:){0,6}(?:[0-9]{1,3}\\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}(?![:.\\w]))(([0-9A-F]{1,4}:){0,5}|:)((:[0-9A-F]{1,4}){1,5}:|:)|::(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){5})(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)|(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){7}[A-F0-9]{1,4}|(?=(?:[A-F0-9]{0,4}:){0,7}[A-F0-9]{0,4}(?![:.\\w]))(([0-9A-F]{1,4}:){1,7}|:)((:[0-9A-F]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){7}:|:(:[A-F0-9]{1,4}){7})(?![:.\\w])/i

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With Subnet

/(?:(?:(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){6}|(?=(?:[A-F0-9]{0,4}:){0,6}(?:[0-9]{1,3}\\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}(?![:.\\w]))(([0-9A-F]{1,4}:){0,5}|:)((:[0-9A-F]{1,4}){1,5}:|:)|::(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){5})(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])\\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)|(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){7}[A-F0-9]{1,4}|(?=(?:[A-F0-9]{0,4}:){0,7}[A-F0-9]{0,4}(?![:.\\w]))(([0-9A-F]{1,4}:){1,7}|:)((:[0-9A-F]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|(?:[A-F0-9]{1,4}:){7}:|:(:[A-F0-9]{1,4}){7})(?![:.\\w])\\/(?:12[0-8]|1[01][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])/i

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IPv4 or IPv6

/((^\\s*((([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\\.){3}([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]))\\s*$)|(^\\s*((([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){7}([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){6}(:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3})|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){5}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,2})|:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3})|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){4}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,3})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3}))|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){3}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,4})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,2}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3}))|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){2}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,5})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,3}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3}))|:))|(([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){1}(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,6})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,4}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3}))|:))|(:(((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){1,7})|((:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}){0,5}:((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)(\\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\\d|1\\d\\d|[1-9]?\\d)){3}))|:)))(%.+)?\\s*$))/

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Domains & URLs

General Domain (up to 3rd-level-domain)

/(?:(?:([\\w\\-]*)(?:\\.))?([\\w\\-]*))\\.(\\w*)/

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With optional port:

/(?:(?:([\\w\\-]*)(?:\\.))?([\\w\\-]*))\\.(\\w*)(?:\\:(\\d*))?/

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With protocol and optional port:

/(\\w*)\\:\\/\\/(?:(?:([\\w\\-]*)(?:\\.))?([\\w\\-]*))\\.(\\w*)(?:\\:(\\d*))?/

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With optional protocol and port:

/(?:(\\w*)\\:\\/\\/)?(?:(?:([\\w\\-]*)(?:\\.))?([\\w\\-]*))\\.(\\w*)(?:\\:(\\d*))?/

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URLs with path

Usually you’ll want these to match specific protocols, therefore you can set them. In this case we’ll be looking for http(s) and ftp(s). Otherwise you could also use the wildcard as in the general domain example.

/(https?|ftps?):\\/\\/([\\w_-]+(?:(?:\\.[\\w_-]+)+))([\\w.,@?^=%&:\\/~+#-]*[\\w@?^=%&\\/~+#-])/

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With optional protocol:

/(?:(https?|ftps?):\\/\\/)?([\\w_-]+(?:(?:\\.[\\w_-]+)+))([\\w.,@?^=%&:\\/~+#-]*[\\w@?^=%&\\/~+#-])/

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File paths

File path with filename + extension

/((\\/|\\\\|\\/\\/|https?:\\\\\\\\|https?:\\/\\/)[a-z0-9 _@\\-^!#$%&+={}.\\/\\\\\\[\\]]+)+\\.[a-z]+$/

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File path with optional filename + extension

/^(.+)/([^/]+)$/

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Filename with extension

/^[\\w,\\s-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{3}$/

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Date

YYYY/MM/DD

/([12]\\d{3}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01]))/

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DD/MM/YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY, DD.MM.YYYY

/^(?:(?:31(\\/|-|\\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]))\\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\\/|-|\\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2])\\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\\d)?\\d{2})$|^(?:29(\\/|-|\\.)0?2\\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:0?[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])(\\/|-|\\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))\\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\\d)?\\d{2})$/

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Time

HH:MM 12-hour

/^(0?[1-9]|1[0-2]):[0-5][0-9]$/

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With meridiems (am/pm)

/((1[0-2]|0?[1-9]):([0-5][0-9]) ?([AaPp][Mm]))/

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HH:MM 24-hour

/^([0-9]|0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9]$/

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With required leading ‘0’

/^(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9]$/

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With Seconds

/(?:[01]\\d|2[0123]):(?:[012345]\\d):(?:[012345]\\d)/

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Other

username:password

/[0-9A-Za-z.]+:[0-z]+/

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Single .env file line

/(?:^|^)\\s*(?:export\\s+)?([\\w.-]+)(?:\\s*=\\s*?|:\\s+?)(\\s*'(?:\\\\'|[^'])*'|\\s*\\"(?:\\\\\\"|[^\\"])*\\"|\\s*`(?:\\\\`|[^`])*`|[^#\\r\\n]+)?\\s*(?:#.*)?(?:$|$)/gm

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International phone number incl. european notation

/[+]\\d{1,2}|(00)\\d{2,4}|\\d{2})( [(]\\d{1,3}[)])?[-. \\/]?\\d{2,6}?[-. \\/]?\\d{2,15}([-. \\/]{1,3}\\d{1,5}){0,4}/

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Word duplicates

/(\\b\\w+\\b)(?=.*\\b\\1\\b)/ig

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Social Security Number

/^((?!219-09-9999|078-05-1120)(?!666|000|9\\d{2})\\d{3}-(?!00)\\d{2}-(?!0{4})\\d{4})|((?!219 09 9999|078 05 1120)(?!666|000|9\\d{2})\\d{3} (?!00)\\d{2} (?!0{4})\\d{4})|((?!219099999|078051120)(?!666|000|9\\d{2})\\d{3}(?!00)\\d{2}(?!0{4})\\d{4})$/

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Html tags with optional attributes

/<\\/?[\\w\\s]*>|<.+[\\W]>/

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25+ useful and commonly used Regular Expressions

Testing your regular expressions

Commonly used

Digits

Alphanumeric

Username

Email

Common email

Uncommon email

RFC 5322

Passwords

Moderate Password

Strong Password

Strong+ Password

IP addresses

IPv4

IPv6

IPv4 or IPv6

Domains & URLs

General Domain (up to 3rd-level-domain)

URLs with path

File paths

File path with filename + extension

File path with optional filename + extension

Filename with extension

Date

YYYY/MM/DD

DD/MM/YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY, DD.MM.YYYY

Time

HH:MM 12-hour

HH:MM 24-hour

Other

username:password

Single .env file line

International phone number incl. european notation

Word duplicates

Social Security Number

Html tags with optional attributes

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