Currently in my application users are able to add multi-line ssh-keys in a field. Also user can paste as many ssh-keys as they want in that field. Right now I have the following regex for this behavior:
const publicSshKeyRegex = /^(ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2|ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNT|ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAzODQAAAAIbmlzdHAzOD|ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHA1MjEAAAAIbmlzdHA1Mj|ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5|ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3)[0-9A-Za-z+/]+[=]{0,3}(\s.*)?(\n|$)/;
But now what I want is that not to allow users to add multi-line ssh-keys and not to allow them to add several ssh-keys. It means that user will be able to add only one ssh-key and it should be in a single line. So the expected behavior would be To add only one ssh-key, single line.
Could anyone help me to create a new regex for new expecting behavior?
This part in the pattern (\s.*)? optionally matches a whitespace char (that can also match a newline) followed by the rest of the string, allowing for 2 lines to be matched.
If you want a single line only, you can omit that part, and add .* to match the rest of the line, followed by an optional newline and assert the end of the string.
Doing so, this is part [=]{0,3} becomes optional and the character class [0-9A-Za-z+/]+ can be shortened to match at least a single character.
^(?:ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2|ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNT|ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAzODQAAAAIbmlzdHAzOD|ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHA1MjEAAAAIbmlzdHA1Mj|ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5|ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3)[0-9A-Za-z+/].*\n?$
const regex = /^(?:ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2|ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNT|ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAzODQAAAAIbmlzdHAzOD|ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHA1MjEAAAAIbmlzdHA1Mj|ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5|ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3)[0-9A-Za-z+/].*\n?$/;
[
"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2a",
"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2a\n",
"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2a\ntest\n"
].forEach(s => console.log(`${s} --> ${regex.test(s)}`));