Not quite sure if this is what you need but the following should capture only the first case unless I missed something: (^\d+\|$) On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Bwana Lawi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Hi guys,

I need an expression that takes a number and the pipe character 1234| The string must begin with a number so ab1123|xyz does not qualify.

Thanks in advance. Java string utils not an option for now, has to be regex

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'/(^[0-9]+/|).*/' On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Bwana Lawi via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Hi guys,

I need an expression that takes a number and the pipe character 1234| The string must begin with a number so ab1123|xyz does not qualify.

Thanks in advance. Java string utils not an option for now, has to be regex

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