I feel like this is simple but I can't get it to work...

I am using Ui-Router 2.11 which includes optional parameters with regex expressions.

I have this url which works

'/event/{eventId:[0-9]}'

it filters out everything that isn't numeric, however it only works for 1 character of input (so only 0 through 9).

I want to replace it with an expression that checks to make sure all characters in the input are numeric so I can have any input as long as it's all numbers.

I tried using expressions from this thread

'/event/{eventId:^[0-9]+$}'

but it doesn't work. The other examples include forward slashes which I can't use(via the warning in the ui-router docs). This feels like it should be incredibly simple, what am I doing wrong?

I feel like this is simple but I can't get it to work...

I am using Ui-Router 2.11 which includes optional parameters with regex expressions.

I have this url which works

'/event/{eventId:[0-9]}'

it filters out everything that isn't numeric, however it only works for 1 character of input (so only 0 through 9).

I want to replace it with an expression that checks to make sure all characters in the input are numeric so I can have any input as long as it's all numbers.

I tried using expressions from this thread

'/event/{eventId:^[0-9]+$}'

but it doesn't work. The other examples include forward slashes which I can't use(via the warning in the ui-router docs). This feels like it should be incredibly simple, what am I doing wrong?

• javascript
• regex
• angularjs
• angular-ui-router

• 1 try removing the $ sign. – vks Commented Sep 5, 2014 at 13:56

1 Answer 1

Judging by the linked documentation, I think either one of these expressions will do the trick:

'/event/{eventId:[0-9]+}'//match 1 or more digit
'/event/{eventId:[0-9]{1,}}'//same as above, alternative notation

If possible, I would replace [0-9] with \d, though. It just looks cleaner.