REGEX Question

[Antivirus]

I've been trying to write a REGEX to handle either US or Canadian zip codes. US Zipcodes is easy, however how do I validate a canadian zip code, and is it possible for the regular expression to check that the entered data is either US or Canadian format?

Format for US zipcodes is 5 characters, numbers only - therefore my regex for US zipcodes is: /^[0-9]{5}$/

Format for CANADA zipcodes is a little more complex, (# = number, and L = letter) and like this: 3 digits (format L#L) then a space then another 3 digits (#L#). Anyone able to get this done, and is it possible to do it with an OR therein?

This is to be used in vbulletin custom user profile field.
Thanks

[Adrian Schneider]

This worked for me...

'/^([a-z]{1})([0-9]{1})([a-z]{1}) ([0-9]{1})([a-z]{1})([0-9]{1})$/i'

[Antivirus]

works for me as well, but is it possible to use that along with the other one to check that the data fits one or the other?


Something like this:

^[0-9]{5}$ OR ^([a-z]{1})([0-9]{1})([a-z]{1}) ([0-9]{1})([a-z]{1})([0-9]{1})$

This doesn't seem to be working.

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Sir, yours worked on it's own, thanks. I found this site that provided the following regex which works, for either US or CAN as needed.

^(\d{5}-\d{4}|\d{5})$|^([a-zA-Z]\d[a-zA-Z] \d[a-zA-Z]\d)$

thanks!

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ok, so one more thing which I am trying to add to it and i cannot for the life of me figure it out... the current regex is:

^(\d{5})$|^([A-Z]\d[A-Z] \d[A-Z]\d)$|^(other)$

what i need to also check is that the US zipcode is not equal to 00000
anyone know?

[Adrian Schneider]

 and $zipcode != '000000'

lol