UK Postcodes

As with a lot of things in sunny(?) England, Postcodes can be a total nightmare to parse. they have allsorts of rules about combinations of letters and numbers.

So, here is a Regular Expression i blagged from here which validates the lot.

Job done :¬)

^([Gg][Ii][Rr] 0[Aa]{2})((([A-Za-z][0-9]{1,2})(([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]{1,2})(([A-Za-z][0-9][A-Za-z])([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]?[A-Za-z])))) {0,1}[0-9][A-Za-z]{2})$