I am trying to create a regex for the following combination
Alphanumerictext1:1234:12:124:aplhnumericText2:www.stackoverflow.com
In the above format it should validate even if the text has alphanumeric(first field) or incremental values separated by :.
Below are few valid examples:
Alphanumerictext1
Alphanumerictext1:1234
Alphanumerictext1:1234:12
Alphanumerictext1:1234::124:aplhnumericText2
Alphanumerictext1::12
Alphanumerictext1:1234:12:124:aplhnumericText2:www.stackoverflow.com
For that wrote a partial regex like below ^([\w\s\.]+(:\d*){0,3})$ but unable fulfil for last 2 values that are separated by :aplhnumericText2 and www.stackoverflow.com.
You may use this regex to validate all the examples provided:
^[\w\h.]+(?:(?::\d*){1,3}(?::\w*(?::\w+(?:\.\w+)*)?)?)?$
RegEx Details:
^: Start[\w\h.]+:(?:: Start non-capture group #1
(?::\d*){1,3}: Match : followed by 0+ digits. Match 1 to 3 occurrences of this.(?:: Start non-capture group #2
:\w*: Match : followed 0+ word characters(?:: Start non-capture group #3
:\w+(?:\.\w+)*: Match : followed by a host name)?: End optional non-capture group #3)?: End optional non-capture group #2)?: End optional non-capture group #1$: End