Regular Expressions 101

Pro

^start of line

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[a-z])

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[a-z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[A-Z])

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[0-9])

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[0-9]

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

Non-Capturing Group(?:[a-zA-Z0-9]{8,})

Character Class[a-zA-Z0-9]{8,}

{8,}matches at least 8 characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

0-9one character from 0 (48₁₀) to 9 (57₁₀)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

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25 tokens

^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[0-9])(?:[a-zA-Z0-9]{8,})$

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Sh0rter
N0LOWERCASE
n0uppercase
noLetters
This15OK
val1dOne
longer1sOkNo
NoSpecia1Chars?