regex: match at least one character from set

Question

I have a character set {x, y, z} and I want to check if some string contains at least one character from this set.
For example:

abxyz - valid
zabc1 - valid
abc4e - not valid

Show us what you tried... Then we can help. – ppeterka Jan 10 '13 at 08:47 — ppeterka, Jan 10 '13 at 08:47

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '13 at 08:49

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/.*[xyz].*/ should do the trick

answered Jan 10 '13 at 08:49

icke

+1 for specifying set of discrete values rather than range. Range works for the given example, but the values in an arbitrary set may not be sequential. – Tiksi Jan 10 '13 at 12:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '13 at 08:48

1

Try this regex:

.*[x-z].*

This will only match lines that include [x-z] at least once.

answered Jan 10 '13 at 08:48

Cerbrus

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