Non Zero Number
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Hi am looking for a RegEx that accepts a non-zero number only accepted examples : -10, -12.50, 5, 200, 103.05 etc not accepted : 0 Can you please help
It depends to a certain extent on what "non zero numbers" means, exactly. Does it mean
0only and exactly, or does it have to not match 0. 0.0 0.00 etc. For the simple case of a just excluding a zero we can use the following perl regex:^[-+]?([1-9]\d+|[1-9]+\.|\d*\.\d+|0?\.\d+)$
I've anchored this on line start and end
^ ... $, but you might have other requirements. This will match e.g 1.2 -15 0.03 .12 15. and -0.3, and does not accept any of.,0,0., or1.2.3. However it does accept 0.0, 0.00, etc, and I have not yet found a way to eliminate them from the pattern. There might be a way using lookahead/lookbehind matches [Lookahead and Lookbehind Tutorial—Tips &Tricks](https://www.rexegg.com/regex-lookarounds.html), but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to tell the regex engine that the lookahead/behind should match the entire pattern. For example we can eliminate 0.0 by adding a negative lookbehind regex of(?, but this also elminates `0.0`3, which is not what is wanted. Maybe someone else knows how to resolve this. But maybe regex isn't the way to go. If you're working in Java or C# or C++ or ... , it's probably better to just read some input, check that the entire input parses as a number, convert to a number and then omit or complain if the value is zero - depending on what your use case is. Keep Calm and Carry On -
It depends to a certain extent on what "non zero numbers" means, exactly. Does it mean
0only and exactly, or does it have to not match 0. 0.0 0.00 etc. For the simple case of a just excluding a zero we can use the following perl regex:^[-+]?([1-9]\d+|[1-9]+\.|\d*\.\d+|0?\.\d+)$
I've anchored this on line start and end
^ ... $, but you might have other requirements. This will match e.g 1.2 -15 0.03 .12 15. and -0.3, and does not accept any of.,0,0., or1.2.3. However it does accept 0.0, 0.00, etc, and I have not yet found a way to eliminate them from the pattern. There might be a way using lookahead/lookbehind matches [Lookahead and Lookbehind Tutorial—Tips &Tricks](https://www.rexegg.com/regex-lookarounds.html), but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to tell the regex engine that the lookahead/behind should match the entire pattern. For example we can eliminate 0.0 by adding a negative lookbehind regex of(?, but this also elminates `0.0`3, which is not what is wanted. Maybe someone else knows how to resolve this. But maybe regex isn't the way to go. If you're working in Java or C# or C++ or ... , it's probably better to just read some input, check that the entire input parses as a number, convert to a number and then omit or complain if the value is zero - depending on what your use case is. Keep Calm and Carry On