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regexdatedurationiso8601period

Regex expression for ISO 8601 duration

I've been looking at ISO 8061 Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations

I want to create a regex so that:

Allowed Input

P1Y // date component only
P5W

Not Allowed Input

P1Y5W // No Year, month, week together. Just one of them.
P1Y2DT0H3M // No hour, minute, second

I tried

/^(-?)P(?=\d|T\d)(?:(\d+)Y)?(?:(\d+)M)?(?:(\d+)([DW]))/

P1Y2DT0H3M didn't pass while P1Y2D(shouldn't pass either)

What should I do?

Thank you in advance!

Solution

  • As you only want one period specifier that is either Y, M, D or W, you can use this regex:

    ^P\d+[YMDW]$