What's the shortest regex that can match non-zero floating point numbers with any number of decimal places?

Question

What's the shortest regex that can match non-zero floating point numbers with any number of decimal places?

It should accept numbers like

-1
-5.9652
-7.00002
-0.8
-0.0500
-0.58000
0.01
0.000005
0.9900
5
7.5
7.005

but reject constructions such as

.
.02
-.
-.996
0
-0
0.
-0.
-0.000
0.00
--
..
+
+0
+1
+.
+1.26
,etc

I do not need support for the scientific notation, with e , E and such.
The language I'm using is C#, by the way.

Answer 1

^-?(0\.\d*[1-9]|[1-9]\d*(\.\d+)?)$

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EDIT Updated to reflect new requirements (last decimals can be zero)

^-?(0\.\d*[1-9]\d*|[1-9]\d*(\.\d+)?)$

(Shorter than using lookahead: ^-?(0\.(?=[1-9])\d*|[1-9]\d*(\.\d+)?)$.)

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EDIT2 If e.g. 001.000 can pass

^-?(?=.*[1-9])\d+(\.\d+)?$

Answer 2

This is the one I always use:

(\+|-)?([0-9]+\.?[0-9]*|\.[0-9]+)([eE](\+|-)?[0-9]+)?

Utilized in a PHP example:

<?php

$s= '1.234e4';

preg_match('~(\+|-)?([0-9]+\.?[0-9]*|\.[0-9]+)([eE](\+|-)?[0-9]+)?~', $s, $m);
print_r($m);

?>

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => 1.234e4
    [1] =>
    [2] => 1.234
    [3] => e4
)

Answer 3

-?(?!0)\d+(\.\d+)?

Note: Remember to put ^ $ if it's not done by your regexp matcher.

May I ask why the "shortest"? A pre-compiler RegExp or the same with non-matching groups could be faster. Also a test for zero could possibly be faster too.

Answer 4

You might wish to consider these variations.