I'm trying to create a regex that has the following requirements: 1. must be at least 7 characters in length 2. must contain at least 1 digit 3. must contain at least 1 lowercase letter 4. must contain at least 1 uppercase letter 5. must contain at least one of the following symbols: = ! $ % ^ & + 6. It must reject any word that ...

I wrote a VB.NET application that parses airline passenger data using Regular Expressions.  The passenger's last name appears first followed by a slash.  There can be many different data items after that.  In the airline data, the passenger name format is: [] = optional -[Number]Last Name/First Name/Initial [Middle ...