Portuguese vehicle registration plate

ID pt_vehicle_plate

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Registration number on Portuguese vehicle plates: three pairs of characters. Plates issued since March 2020 have letters, digits and letters (AA 00 AA) without separators; earlier series used 00-AA-00 (from 2005), 00-00-AA (from 1992) and AA-00-00 (from 1937). The regexp accepts all four, with or without hyphens.

Categories: Transportation
Countries: Portugal
Languages: Portuguese
Quality: 70/100 · missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: validator.js

Regular expression

^(?:[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}|[0-9]{2}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}|[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
AB-12-34-CD invalid	Four pairs

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Portugal

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