Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

Community Library Entry

1

Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

/
^(?:(?:[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}(?:\/(?:[0-9]|[12][0-9]|3[0-2]))?|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){7}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,7}:|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,5}(?::[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,2}|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,4}(?::[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,3}|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,3}(?::[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,4}|(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,2}(?::[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:(?::[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,6}|:(?::[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,7}|::)(?:\/(?:[0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-1][0-9]|12[0-8]))?$
/
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Description

This regex can be used to validate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as well as CIDR ranges

Submitted by Simon - 6 months ago (Last modified 4 months ago)