Validating file types by regular expression

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Your regex seems a bit too complex in my opinion. Also, remember that the dot is a special character meaning “any character”. The following regex should work (note the escaped dots):

^.*\.(jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|doc|DOC|pdf|PDF)$

You can use a tool like Expresso to test your regular expressions.

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