How to validate Indian driving license number using Regular Expression

27 Jan, 2021
Given string str, the task is to check whether the given string is a valid Indian driving license number or not by using Regular Expression.The valid Indian driving license number must satisfy the following conditions: 
It should be 16 characters long (including space or hyphen (-)).The driving license number can be entered in any of the following formats:
It should be 16 characters long (including space or hyphen (-)).
The driving license number can be entered in any of the following formats:
HR-0619850034761
 OR 
HR06 19850034761
The first two characters should be upper case alphabets that represent the state code.The next two characters should be digits that represent the RTO code.The next four characters should be digits that represent the license issued year.The next seven characters should be any digits from 0-9.
The first two characters should be upper case alphabets that represent the state code.
The next two characters should be digits that represent the RTO code.
The next four characters should be digits that represent the license issued year.
The next seven characters should be any digits from 0-9.
Note: In this article, we will check the license issued year from 1900-2099. It can be customized to change the license issued year.
Examples:
Input: str = “HR-0619850034761”; Output: true Explanation: The given string satisfies all the above mentioned conditions. Therefore, it is not a valid Indian driving license number.
Input: str = “MH27 30120034761”; Output: false Explanation: The given string has the license issued year 3012, that is not a valid year because in this article we validate the year from 1900-2099. Therefore, it is not a valid Indian driving license number.
Input: str = “GJ-2420180”; Output: false Explanation: The given string has 10 characters. Therefore, it is not a valid Indian driving license number.  
Approach: The idea is to use Regular Expression to solve this problem. The following steps can be followed to compute the answer: 
Get the String.
Create a regular expression to check valid Indian driving license number as mentioned below:
regex = “^(([A-Z]{2}[0-9]{2})( )|([A-Z]{2}-[0-9]{2}))((19|20)[0-9][0-9])[0-9]{7}$”; 
Where: ^ represents the starting of the string.( represents the starting of group 1.( represents the starting of group 2.[A-Z]{2} represents the first two characters should be upper case alphabets.[0-9]{2} represents the next two characters should be digits.) represents the ending of the group 2.( ) represents the white space character.| represents the or.( represents the starting of group 3.[A-Z]{2} represents the first two characters should be upper case alphabets.– represents the hyphen.[0-9]{2} represents the next two characters should be digits.) represents the ending of the group 3.) represents the ending of the group 1.((19|20)[0-9][0-9]) represents the year from 1900-2099.[0-9]{7} represents the next seven characters should be any digits from 0-9.$ represents the ending of the string.
^ represents the starting of the string.
( represents the starting of group 1.
( represents the starting of group 2.
[A-Z]{2} represents the first two characters should be upper case alphabets.
[0-9]{2} represents the next two characters should be digits.
) represents the ending of the group 2.
( ) represents the white space character.
| represents the or.
( represents the starting of group 3.
[A-Z]{2} represents the first two characters should be upper case alphabets.
– represents the hyphen.
[0-9]{2} represents the next two characters should be digits.
) represents the ending of the group 3.
) represents the ending of the group 1.
((19|20)[0-9][0-9]) represents the year from 1900-2099.
[0-9]{7} represents the next seven characters should be any digits from 0-9.
$ represents the ending of the string.
Match the given string with the Regular Expression, In Java, this can be done by using Pattern.matcher().
Return true if the string matches with the given regular expression, else return false.
Below is the implementation of the above approach:
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// Java program to validate// Indian driving license number// using regular expression import java.util.regex.*;class GFG {     // Function to validate    // Indian driving license number    // using regular expression    public static boolean isValidLicenseNo(String str)    {        // Regex to check valid        // Indian driving license number        String regex = "^(([A-Z]{2}[0-9]{2})"                       + "( )|([A-Z]{2}-[0-9]"                       + "{2}))((19|20)[0-9]"                       + "[0-9])[0-9]{7}$";         // Compile the ReGex        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);         // If the string is empty        // return false        if (str == null) {            return false;        }         // Find match between given string        // and regular expression        // uSing Pattern.matcher()         Matcher m = p.matcher(str);         // Return if the string        // matched the ReGex        return m.matches();    }     // Driver code    public static void main(String args[])    {         // Test Case 1:        String str1 = "HR-0619850034761";        System.out.println(isValidLicenseNo(str1));         // Test Case 2:        String str2 = "UP14 20160034761";        System.out.println(isValidLicenseNo(str2));         // Test Case 3:        String str3 = "12HR-37200602347";        System.out.println(isValidLicenseNo(str3));         // Test Case 4:        String str4 = "MH27 30123476102";        System.out.println(isValidLicenseNo(str4));         // Test Case 5:        String str5 = "GJ-2420180";        System.out.println(isValidLicenseNo(str5));    }}
# Python program to validate# Indian driving license number# using regular expression import re # Function to validate Indian# driving license number.def isValidLicenseNo(str):     # Regex to check valid    # Indian driving license number    regex = ("^(([A-Z]{2}[0-9]{2})" +             "( )|([A-Z]{2}-[0-9]" +             "{2}))((19|20)[0-9]" +             "[0-9])[0-9]{7}$")         # Compile the ReGex    p = re.compile(regex)     # If the string is empty    # return false    if (str == None):        return False     # Return if the string    # matched the ReGex    if(re.search(p, str)):        return True    else:        return False # Driver code # Test Case 1:str1 = "HR-0619850034761"print(isValidLicenseNo(str1)) # Test Case 2:str2 = "UP14 20160034761"print(isValidLicenseNo(str2)) # Test Case 3:str3 = "12HR-37200602347"print(isValidLicenseNo(str3)) # Test Case 4:str4 = "MH27 30123476102"print(isValidLicenseNo(str4)) # Test Case 5:str5 = "GJ-2420180"print(isValidLicenseNo(str5)) # This code is contributed by avanitrachhadiya2155
// C++ program to validate the// Indian driving license number// using Regular Expression#include <iostream>#include <regex>using namespace std; // Function to validate the// Indian driving license numberbool isValidLicenseNo(string str){     // Regex to check valid    // Indian driving license number    const regex pattern("^(([A-Z]{2}[0-9]{2})( "                        ")|([A-Z]{2}-[0-9]{2}))"                        "((19|20)[0-"                        "9][0-9])[0-9]{7}$");     // If the Indian driving    // license number is empty return false    if (str.empty())    {        return false;    }     // Return true if the Indian    // driving license number    // matched the ReGex    if (regex_match(str, pattern))    {        return true;    }    else {        return false;    }} // Driver Codeint main(){    // Test Case 1:    string str1 = "HR-0619850034761";    cout << isValidLicenseNo(str1) << endl;     // Test Case 2:    string str2 = "UP14 20160034761";    cout << isValidLicenseNo(str2) << endl;     // Test Case 3:    string str3 = "12HR-37200602347";    cout << isValidLicenseNo(str3) << endl;     // Test Case 4:    string str4 = "MH27 30123476102";    cout << isValidLicenseNo(str4) << endl;     // Test Case 5:    string str5 = "GJ-2420180";    cout << isValidLicenseNo(str5) << endl;     return 0;} // This code is contributed by yuvraj_chandra
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