regex to check number of digits code example
Example 1: regex numeric digits
Dim rRegex As Object
Set rRegex = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
rRegex.Pattern = "[0-9]{8,9}"
MsgBox rRegex.test("12345678")
rRegex.Pattern = "[0-9]+"
MsgBox rRegex.test("12345")
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