Regex to allow multiple value

General Web Dev
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I have got the following regex

^[a-z-A-Z]{4}[0-9]{2}|^[a-z-A-Z]{2}[0-9]{4}$

This allows things like YJ1313 or JDTZ11. What I am looking for is to update this regex to allow multi values separated by coma, say YJ1313,JDTZ11,XX1111,AABB88,YY1111,RRTT11

2

Where is this csv data coming from in the first place?

3

I don’t understand your question.

4

(a|b)(,a|,b)*

^(a-z-A-Z]{4}[0-9]{2}|[a-z-A-Z]{2}[0-9]{4})(,[a-z-A-Z]{4}[0-9]{2}|,[a-z-A-Z]{2}[0-9]{4})*$

It can probably be done better than that, but that should work.

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Your data with the commas in it, where is it coming from? A database, a text file?

9

It appears to be working

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User’s input in form. Those are Chilean license plates and the user so far could enter just one but they want being able to enter several.
The format is either 2 letters and 4 digits or 4 letters and 2 digits

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I would split it first and check them one by one

$errors = [];

// $input should contain the input by the user
// use 'trim' to ignore any spaces around commas
$licensplates = array_map('trim', explode(',', $input));
foreach ($licenseplates as $licenseplate) {
    if (!preg_match('^[a-z-A-Z]{4}[0-9]{2}|^[a-z-A-Z]{2}[0-9]{4}$', $licenseplate)) {
        $errors[] = sprintf('Licence plate "%s" is invalid', $licenseplate);
    }
}

// do something nice with the errors please
// like rendering them in the form
// this is just an example
if (!empty($errors)) {
   echo 'Computer says no!';
   var_dump($errors);
   exit;
}
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