Is "three" a digit?
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Why does the regular expression [0-9]*, which is supposed to match
a string with zero or more digits, match a string with characters in it?
matched, err := regexp.MatchString(`[0-9]*`, "12three45")
fmt.Println(matched) // true
fmt.Println(err) // nil (regexp is valid)
Answer
The function regexp.MatchString
(as well as most functions in the regexp package)
does substring matching.
To check if a full string matches [0-9]*,
anchor the start and the end of the regular expression:
- the caret ^ matches the beginning of a text or line,
- the dollar sign $ matches the end of a text.
matched, err := regexp.MatchString(`^[0-9]*$`, "12three45")
fmt.Println(matched) // false
fmt.Println(err) // nil (regexp is valid)
See this Regexp in-depth tutorial for a cheat sheet and plenty of code examples.
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