I need validate with RegEx an sexagecimal value, for example: 24° 12' 55,4" or 32° 24' 15,4".
For now, I have the next RegEx, that matches successful with degrees and minutes:
^([0-8][0-9]|[9][0])°\s([0-4][0-9]|[5][9])'$
But, when add the seconds validator have problems:
^([0-8][0-9]|[9][0])°\s([0-4][0-9]|[5][9])'\s([0-4][0-9]|[5][9],[0-9])''$
I'm new with RegEx, any ideas?
First off, you have some redundancy:
^([0-8][0-9]|[9][0])°\s([0-4][0-9]|[5][9])'$
can become just:
^([0-8][0-9]|90)°\s([0-4][0-9]|59)'$
Next you have a logical issue, in your second match, you're matching 0-4 then 0-9 (ie 00-49) and then matching just 59. You can change this to:
^([0-8][0-9]|90)°\s[0-5][0-9]'$
to match 00-59
Next let's look at your seconds modification:
\s([0-4][0-9]|[5][9],[0-9])''$
Same issue as before, except now you've added a decimal, but not to both sides of the | so it will only match on one side, if we fix this like we fixed the last one we get:
^([0-8][0-9]|90)°\s[0-5][0-9]'\s[0-5][0-9],[0-9]''$
Next you have two single quotes instead of a double quote, so fix that:
^([0-8][0-9]|90)°\s([0-5][0-9])'\s[0-5][0-9],[0-9]"$
Now we need to ask ourselves, is the first digit on this mandatory? Probably not. So mark it as potentially missing using a ?
^([0-8]?[0-9]|90)°\s[0-5]?[0-9]'\s[0-5]?[0-9],[0-9]"$
Next, is the fractional part of the second mandatory? Probably not, so mark it as potentially missing:
^([0-8]?[0-9]|90)°\s[0-5]?[0-9]'\s[0-5]?[0-9](,[0-9])?"$
Finally, I'm assuming that each part except for the degrees is not required, mark them as potentially missing:
^([0-8]?[0-9]|90)°(\s[0-5]?[0-9]')?(\s[0-5]?[0-9](,[0-9])?")?$
There's other things you can do to make this better. But, this should get you started.