\d in regex code example
Example 1: regex numeric digits
' Needs reference "Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5"
Dim rRegex As Object
Set rRegex = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
rRegex.Pattern = "[0-9]{8,9}" ' 8 or 9 numbers
MsgBox rRegex.test("12345678") ' True
rRegex.Pattern = "[0-9]+" ' Numeric of any size
MsgBox rRegex.test("12345") ' True
Example 2: regex match any number of digits
For matching an integer number of one single char/digit, specify:
[0-9]
But for matching any number of more than one char/digit; add "+":
[0-9]+
Example for matching hour with minutes of HH:MM format in a file:
grep "[0-9]\+\:[0-9]\+" file.txt