Time Regular Expressions

[abc123]

okay

im using vb6

my regexp currently looks like this:
"([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} (AM|PM))"

which will match:
11:32 PM
or
09:03 AM

but

it also matches-
03:23 AMblahblahlblahblah

how can i fix this?

[sde]

try: "([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} (AM|PM)(\.|\s|$))"

the "\." will match a period in case AM or PM is at the end of a sentance. You need the "\" because "." alone just matches any single character.

or

the \s will match a white space after AM or PM,

or

the $ will match end of line.. in the case that there is no white space after AM or PM.

[abc123]

ahh, thankyou i ended up fixing it by restricting the length of the textfield to 8 or whatever, but i think i'll use that now...