Regex for numbers only

Your regex will match anything that contains a number, you want to use anchors to match the whole string and then match one or more numbers:

regex = new Regex("^[0-9]+$");

The ^ will anchor the beginning of the string, the $ will anchor the end of the string, and the + will match one or more of what precedes it (a number in this case).


Use the beginning and end anchors.

Regex regex = new Regex(@"^\d$");

Use "^\d+$" if you need to match more than one digit.


Note that "\d" will match [0-9] and other digit characters like the Eastern Arabic numerals ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩. Use "^[0-9]+$" to restrict matches to just the Arabic numerals 0 - 9.


If you need to include any numeric representations other than just digits (like decimal values for starters), then see @tchrist's comprehensive guide to parsing numbers with regular expressions.


If you need to tolerate decimal point and thousand marker

var regex = new Regex(@"^-?[0-9][0-9,\.]+$");

You will need a "-", if the number can go negative.

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