>From Ronald J Kimball on 28/11/06 3:47 pm:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:21:41AM +1100, Randy Silvers wrote:
>>> First, the grep not only will match "N15" which is invalid, and not
>>> match "N15 4RC" which is valid, but it will not match "N15 4RCCCC"
>>> which is invalid.
>
> Oops, I forgot to account for prefixes. That's easy to fix, by adding a $
> inside the (?!).
>
> ^(?![A-Z]{1,2}[\d]+ \d[A-Z][A-Z]$).+$
>
> Now it correctly matches "N15 4RCCCC". Thanks for catching that!
>
> This regex is supposed to match all invalid post codes. It was an
> oversight that it didn't match ones that are valid post codes plus extra
> characters. :)
>
>
> HTH,
> Ronald
Thanks both for the eagle eyes - turns out I did have a few postcodes with
extra characters on the end, now dealt with.
Cheers
Rich
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