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help with regex pattern

I'm terrible with regular expressions and cannot figure out how to use a regex expression to check for the following pattern.

The first 3 characters must be alpabetic and the next 7 characters must be numeric.

The first 3 characters can only be:
RTN
ADJ
TRA

The remaining 7 characters can be any numeric value 0-9

I'm sure this is simple, but I can't figure it out.

I was starting with this:
[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][0-9] but, this isn't even close.

Thanks for any help.

kaufmed

Actually, it is close--it's just not finished = )

I believe you just need to repeat the digit part 6 more times:

[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]

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However, if you can tell us what language or editor you are using, we might be able to shorten it a bit. For example, you might be able to use:

[A-Za-z]{3}[0-9]{7}

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Also, you may need some boundaries on that pattern to prevent matching substrings. Start of string ( ^ ) and end of string ( $ ) are fairly common among languages/editors:

^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$

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wdosanjos

Please try the following pattern:

^((RTN)|(ADJ)|(TRA))\d{7}$

kaufmed

Ah, I missed the restriction on the letters. Silly me : \

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HonorGod

wdosanjos provided the 1st answer, I just simplified it.

Please "request attention" and have them reopen it so that you can give most of the points to wdosanjos.

Thanks!

Good luck & have a super day.