Regex for Validating Geo Coordinates

Asked Jul 26 '16 at 18:35

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All,

I have created below regex (javascript regex) for validating geo location coordinates as follows:

(42.969142, -81.237232)
(42, -81)
(-42, +81)
etc

I have the following regex expression that works in an online validator but doesn't work in the browser, please help:

Regex:

\([-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?\s*\,\s*[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?\)

Tested here and it works:

http://www.regextester.com/

My javascript code:

var regexCoords = "\([-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?\s*\,\s*[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?\)";
    var regex = new RegExp(regexCoords);
    var validCoords = regex.test(streetAddr);

asked Jul 26 '16 at 18:35

ActiveX

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`var regexCoords = /\([-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?\s*\,\s*[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?\)/;` – Wiktor Stribiżew Jul 26 '16 at 18:37
Always test at regex101.com and after testing see the *code generator* page for the code that should work. – Wiktor Stribiżew Jul 26 '16 at 18:40
I'm new to JS regex, why is the regex not in quotation as a string? Btw, I did look at other related stackoverflow posts about this topic and the regexes did not work. – ActiveX Jul 26 '16 at 18:41
nvm, I see the explanation at the top of the post. Thanks for help. – ActiveX Jul 26 '16 at 18:48

Regex for Validating Geo Coordinates

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