Regexp with positive look-ahead

Hi,
I need to evaluate a string; the string should be atleast 6 characters in length, consist of letters and numbers and at least 2 of those characters should be numbers.

As far as I know, I need something like a 'positive look-ahead' to achive this? I googled around a bit, used some existing patterns and finally added a bit of my own basic knowledge of regular expressions and came up with this:


Which actually works fine, but also validates strings with only one number in it.

Can anyone tell me what I need to change to make it work like I want it to?

Personally, I would do this in two steps. First verify the string is 6 alphanumerics, then count the instances of digits. Putting everything in one regex works for simple cases but can easily grow out of control.

Anyway, the solution to your problem is in your look ahead that finds a digit, look for a second digit after the first with some number of intervening characters.

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately you are overestimating my Regex capabilities. Do you know what exactly I need to change to get the desired result?

Your lookahead only finds one number. Modify it so that it finds two numbers.

Hint: look for any amount of non-numbers, a digit, more non-numbers, and another digit.

Now that I read OmegaZero's post again, and the hint from requinix, I finally "got it".

I don't know if this Regex is perfect, but it does exactly what I want it to.
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