Regex Password Validation - Codewars [duplicate]

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You need to write regex that will validate a password to make sure it meets the following criteria:

At least six characters long

contains a lowercase letter

contains an uppercase letter

contains a number

Valid passwords will only be alphanumeric characters.

So far, this is my attempt:

function validate(password) {
    return /^[A-Za-z0-9]{6,}$/.test(password);
}

What this does so far is make sure that each character is alphanumeric and that the password has at least 6 characters. It seems to work properly in those regards.

I am stuck on the part where it requires that a valid password have at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, and one number. How can I express these requirements along with the previous ones using a single regular expression?

I could easily do this in JavaScript, but I wish to do it through a regular expression alone since this is what the problem is testing.

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Avinash Raj
– Avinash Raj

2015-04-06 04:20:59 +00:00
Commented Apr 6, 2015 at 4:20 — Avinash Raj
– Avinash Raj, Commented Apr 6, 2015 at 4:20

13208742183812437591 · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-25 11:27:31Z

21

You need to use lookaheads:

function validate(password) {
    return /^(?=.*?[A-Z])(?=.*?[a-z])(?=.*?[0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]{6,}$/.test(password);
}

Explanation:

^               # start of input 
(?=.*?[A-Z])    # Lookahead to make sure there is at least one upper case letter
(?=.*?[a-z])    # Lookahead to make sure there is at least one lower case letter
(?=.*?[0-9])    # Lookahead to make sure there is at least one number
[A-Za-z0-9]{6,} # Make sure there are at least 6 characters of [A-Za-z0-9]
$               # end of input

edited Feb 25, 2019 at 11:27

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