I'd do this with a series of individual tests, rather than a regex. Fails if it
is too short, fails if does not have a numeral, etc.
The password checking plugins are designed to work this way, with a set of
individual, simple tests.
wunder
Walter Underwood
Server Engineering, MarkLogic
On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Keith Breinholt wrote:
> I'd like to use fn:matches() to validate that a password has an acceptable
> set of characters.
>
> A typical regex for password validation is
> "/^(?=^.{6,}$)((?=.*[A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z]))^.*$/"
>
> However, if I use that regex like this
>
> fn:matches( $pwd,
> "^(?=^.{6,}$)((?=.*[A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z]))^.*$" )
>
> It throws an invalid regular expression exception.
>
> Is there another expression that I could use to validate length, upper and
> lower case letters and at least on number?
>
> --
> Keith
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