Snipplr comments feed https://ipv6.snipplr.com/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:24:16 +0000 https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression <p>NOTE: This is not a good regular expression to use to find matches of UK postcodes. For example, "EC1R 5DW" is an actual postcode, but this RegEx pattern does not find it! If anyone has a better RegEx pattern, please post it here.</p> Fri, 14 May 2010 05:29:45 UTC https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression <p>You can test your regular expression patterns here ... http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ and http://design215.com/toolbox/regexp.php</p> Fri, 14 May 2010 05:30:45 UTC https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression <p>The Wikipedia entry for 'Postcodes in the United Kingdom' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom) has the following Regular Expression, which seems pretty good ... /[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9R][0-9A-Z]? [0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}/i I have updated the snippet the use this new RegEx.</p> Fri, 14 May 2010 05:39:18 UTC https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression <p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_postcode</p> Fri, 14 May 2010 06:47:17 UTC https://ipv6.snipplr.com/view/32540/as3-checks-and-returns-valid-uk-postcode-using-regular-expression