Re: Regex for Amateur Radio Callsigns
| From: | Stephen Calnan | Date: | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:38:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regex for Amateur Radio Callsigns | ||
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> > The only problem with this is that it would take "444" which is not a
> > valid call.
Wikipedia defines a HAM call sign here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign#Amateur_radio
A regex based upon this definition might be:
/\b(([A-Z]{1,2})|([A-Z][0-9]))[0-9][A-Z]{1,3}\b/
I tested this out a tiny bit and it seems to work OK. Good luck.