SSN regex Java

SSN stands for social security number and is issued to US citizens, permanent and temporary residents.

SSN regex

This number has the following rules:

consists of 9 digits and usually divided by 3 parts by hyphen (XXX-XX-XXXX).
The first part can not be 000, 666, or between 900-900.
Second part can not be 00
Third part can not be 0000

Below is a simple SSN regular expression that is divided by hyphens.

If you want to make hyphens optional, put ? after each dash
If you want to validate SSN without hyphens - just remove them

Pattern.compile("^(?!666|000|9\\d{2})\\d{3}-(?!00)\\d{2}-(?!0{4})\\d{4}$")

Test it!

/^(?!666|000|9\d{2})\d{3}-(?!00)\d{2}-(?!0{4})\d{4}$/

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Example code in Java:

import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.MatchResult;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String []args) {
        // Validate SSN
        boolean isMatch = Pattern.compile("^(?!666|000|9\\d{2})\\d{3}-(?!00)\\d{2}-(?!0{4})\\d{4}$")
               .matcher("100-22-3333")
               .find(); 
        System.out.println(isMatch); // prints true
        
        // Extract ssn from a string
        String[] matches = Pattern.compile("(?!666|000|9\\d{2})\\d{3}-(?!00)\\d{2}-(?!0{4})\\d{4}")
                          .matcher("My SSN is 100-22-3333")
                          .results()
                          .map(MatchResult::group)
                          .toArray(String[]::new);
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(matches)); // prints [100-22-3333]
    }
}

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