Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

Character Class[-+]?

?matches at most one character from the set below:

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

+the literal + (43₁₀ / 53₈ / 2B₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

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

\.?optionally matches the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

Character Class[0-9]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

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

$end of line

Global pattern flags

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

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

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Search reference

Regular Expression

^[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+$

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