Someone check my regex please

[White_Magic]

bots with idents of -
1) 1letter4numbers
2) 4letters4numbers

are bothering us, anybody tellme this regex is correct to stop them?

.*![a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*@.*:.*
.*![a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*@.*:.*

[Syzop]

.*![a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*@.*:.*
.*![a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*@.*:.*

well yes that would work.
But you probably would want to have fun with the repeat thingy, so:

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.*![a-z][0-9]{4}.*@.*:.*

and actually.. if the ident is just 1 letter + 4 digits and nothing more.. then you probably do not want a .* there, so:

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.*![a-z][0-9]{4}@.*:.*

or what I would use (^ means start at the beginning, .+ means match 1 or more)..

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^.+![a-z][0-9]{4}@.+:.+

(similar stuff for other regex)

[aquanight]

Why use two regexes?

^.+?[0-9]{4}@.+:.+$

[White_Magic]

im getting better i promise

[w00t]

Why use two regexes?

^.+?[0-9]{4}@.+:.+$

ofc, i could be wrong... but should that be:
^.+?[0-9]{4}@.+:.+$

(1/4 letters, 1/4 numbers)
remembering that im just starting out with regexs

*edit* fixed bloody bbcode *edit*

[White_Magic]

Why use two regexes?

^.+?[0-9]{4}@.+:.+$

ofc, i could be wrong... but should that be:
^.+?[0-9]{4}@.+:.+$

(1/4 letters, 1/4 numbers)
remembering that im just starting out with regexs

*edit* fixed bloody bbcode *edit*

no becuz there is 1 [a-z] out of the sub expression,

[w00t]

ta muchley, im getting there