regex to limit the decimal number after decimal to 6 digits

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1.123456
1.12
1.236

these are valid

1.1234567
5.123456789
these are not valid

I tried ^\d{0,9}(\.\d{0,9})?$ but it didnt work

Posted 11-Sep-15 5:23am

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Updated 11-Sep-15 5:25am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Sep-15 11:44am

Because your regular expression does not even contain the figure 6... :-)
Also, why doing so? Validation of floating-point data is much more complex.
—SA

Patrice T 11-Sep-15 18:47pm

What is the usage ?

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-09-11T05:45:00

Solution 1

Try changing the 9 to a 6:

^\d{0,9}(\.\d{0,6})?$

Posted 11-Sep-15 5:45am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2015-09-11T05:49:00

Please see my comment to the question. Is looks like validation of some floating-point input. Who cares how many digits are there. You only need to take care of valid format, and, on top of it, probably a valid range. But how?

Simple. Use parseFloat:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseFloat[^].

Failure will be indicated by null value returned. If parsing is successful, you get floating-point numeric object which you can additionally check for the expect range of values. That's all.

Alternatively or additionally, you can use masked text box for input. Please see, for example: http://jsfiddle.net/SO_AMK/SEXAj[^].

—SA