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regexing a utc timezone code
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Trying to regex in ruby using this: /UTC\s.\d{4}/

This picks up both

UTC +0000 UTC -0800

The codebase I'm working with uses: /UTC\s\-?\d{4}/

Which picks up

UTC +0000 UTC -0800

The period isn't the best alternative, because it's going to pick up anything besides the acceptable +/-. Thoughts?

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Ah, good to know. I'll remove the pipe.

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nikhilbansal commented Feb 9, 2018 •
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Just modified ttscoff's expression to /UTC\s[+-]\d{4}$/ to validate the terminating character.

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