regex to allow string, string followed by numbers, and hyphen

Question

I wanna regex which will allow the following samples

1) abcd
2) abcd123
3) abcd-123

which should not allow

1) 123abcd
2) 123
3) 123-123

Great. Its working as expected. I just want to understand this. Can you please explain this? — Manoj, Apr 06 '17 at 15:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '17 at 15:52

2

You can use this regex:

/^[a-z]+-?\d*$/i

RegEx Breakup:

answered Apr 06 '17 at 15:52

anubhava

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 06 '17 at 15:31

0

I think, if lowercase

[a-z]-?\d

answered Apr 06 '17 at 15:31

Blaze349

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