Pattern: GUID

“GUID” is one of the patterns that you can select on the Match panel. Use it to make a field match a globally unique identifier such as {7E9081B5-9A6D-4CC1-A8C3-47F69FB4198D}.

This pattern can only be used to match arbitrary GUIDs. If you want to match specific GUIDs, use the “literal text” pattern to match a single GUID, or the “list of literal text” pattern to match one from a list of GUIDs.

Braces Around The GUID

A GUID is a 128-bit number usually written as {A4F90AD5-DC63-4A1D-A5EC-F44E5B15C5D9} with braces and hyphens. You can choose whether your regular expression requires or allows the braces.

• Required: Only match the GUID if surrounded by braces.
• Optional: Match the GUID with braces if they are present while allowing the GUID to be matched without braces if they are not present.
• Not allowed: Match the GUID without the braces. If braces are present, the pattern may still match a GUID between braces without matching the braces if the patterns before and after this pattern can match the braces.

Hyphens in The GUID

A GUID is a 128-bit number usually written as {A4F90AD5-DC63-4A1D-A5EC-F44E5B15C5D9} with braces and hyphens. You can choose whether your regular expression requires or allows the hyphens. If the field validation mode is "strict" or "average", the hyphens will only be matched at their correct positions. In "loose" or "none" mode, the patter will allow any combination of hexadecimal digits with or without hyphens.

• Required: Only match the GUID if all 4 hyphens are present.
• Optional: Match the GUID with or without hyphens. If the field validation mode is set to "strict", all 4 hyphens must be either present or omitted. In "average" mode, any of the 4 hyphens may be omitted separately.
• Not allowed: Do not allow any hyphens in the GUID.

Case

Choose whether the hexadecimal digits A to F in the GUID should be uppercase or lowercase.

• Case insensitive: Match all GUIDs regardless of case.
• Uppercase: Only match GUIDs with uppercase hexadecimal digits.
• Lowercase: Only match GUIDs with lowercase hexadecimal digits.

Examples

• Pattern: GUID