How to validate Username using Java Regular Expression

In this tutorial we are going to see about how to validate Username using Java Regular Expression

User Name Regular Expression Pattern

^[a-z0-9]{5,15}$

UserNameValidator.java

package com.ehowtonow.regex;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class UserNameValidator {
 private static final String PATTERN = "^[a-z0-9]{5,15}$";

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  System.out.println("Validate jtc123 : "+validate("jtc123"));
  System.out.println("Validate JTC123 : "+validate("JTC123"));
  System.out.println("Validate Jtc45 : "+validate("Jtc45"));
  System.out.println("Validate 123Jtc : "+validate("123Jtc"));
  System.out.println("Validate jtc : "+validate("jtc"));
  System.out.println("Validate jtcjtc : "+validate("jtcjtc"));
  System.out.println("Validate 123jtc : "+validate("123jtc"));

 }

 private static boolean validate(String userName) {
  Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(PATTERN);
  Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(userName);
  return matcher.matches();

 }

}

Output :

Validate jtc123 : true
Validate JTC123 : false
Validate Jtc45 : false
Validate 123Jtc : false
Validate jtc : false
Validate jtcjtc : true
Validate 123jtc : true

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