Regex to match a digit two or four times

There’s no specific syntax for that, but there are lots of ways to do it:

(?:\d{4}|\d{2})    <-- alternation: four digits if possible, else just two
\d{2}(?:\d{2})?    <-- two digits, plus two more if possible
(?:\d{2}){1,2}     <-- two digits, times one or two

So, for example, to match strings consisting of one or more letters A–Z followed by either two or four digits, you might write ^[A-Z]+(?:\d{4}|\d{2})$; and to match a comma-separated list of two-or-four-digit numbers, you might write ^((?:\d{4},|\d{2},)*(?:\d{4}|\d{2})$ or ^(?:\d{2}(?:\d{2})?,)*\d{2}(?:\d{2})$.

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