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Validating a GUID Value With Regular Expressions

Posted on Apr 22, 2007

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Development
.NET

I am sure that most readers of this site have at one point or another noticed my RegularExpression articles. Well, this past week I was looking for a very specific regular expression and thought I would share it with you. The following regular expression is used to validate a GUID value for user input. You can use this to ensure that product keys and other GUID values that you are using are in the proper format.

GUID Validation RegEx
^(\{){0,1}[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}(\}){0,1}$