接受的答案反映了皇家邮政给出的规则，尽管正则表达式中有一个拼写错误。这个错字似乎在gov.uk网站上也有(就像在XML存档页面中一样)。

在格式A9A 9AA中，规则允许在第三个位置出现P字符，而正则表达式不允许这样。正确的正则表达式应该是:

(GIR 0AA)|((([A-Z-[QVX]][0-9][0-9]?)|(([A-Z-[QVX]][A-Z-[IJZ]][0-9][0-9]?)|(([A-Z-[QVX]][0-9][A-HJKPSTUW])|([A-Z-[QVX]][A-Z-[IJZ]][0-9][ABEHMNPRVWXY])))) [0-9][A-Z-[CIKMOV]]{2}) 

将其缩短为以下正则表达式(使用Perl/Ruby语法):

(GIR 0AA)|([A-PR-UWYZ](([0-9]([0-9A-HJKPSTUW])?)|([A-HK-Y][0-9]([0-9ABEHMNPRVWXY])?))\s?[0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2})

它还在第一个和第二个块之间包含一个可选的空格。

我一直在寻找一个英国邮政编码正则表达式的最后一天左右，无意中发现了这个线程。我尝试了上面的大部分建议，但没有一个对我有用，所以我想出了自己的正则表达式，据我所知，它捕获了截至1月13日的所有有效的英国邮政编码(根据皇家邮政的最新文献)。

The regex and some simple postcode checking PHP code is posted below. NOTE:- It allows for lower or uppercase postcodes and the GIR 0AA anomaly but to deal with the, more than likely, presence of a space in the middle of an entered postcode it also makes use of a simple str_replace to remove the space before testing against the regex. Any discrepancies beyond that and the Royal Mail themselves don't even mention them in their literature (see http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/programmers_guide_edition_7_v5.pdf and start reading from page 17)!

注意:在皇家邮政自己的文献中(链接以上)，第3和第4位的位置略有模糊，如果这些字符是字母，则例外。我直接联系了皇家邮政，用他们自己的话说，“AANA NAA格式的出境代码的第4个位置的信件没有例外，而第3个位置的例外只适用于ANA NAA格式的出境代码的最后一个字母。”直接从马嘴里说出来的!

<?php

    $postcoderegex = '/^([g][i][r][0][a][a])$|^((([a-pr-uwyz]{1}([0]|[1-9]\d?))|([a-pr-uwyz]{1}[a-hk-y]{1}([0]|[1-9]\d?))|([a-pr-uwyz]{1}[1-9][a-hjkps-uw]{1})|([a-pr-uwyz]{1}[a-hk-y]{1}[1-9][a-z]{1}))(\d[abd-hjlnp-uw-z]{2})?)$/i';

    $postcode2check = str_replace(' ','',$postcode2check);

    if (preg_match($postcoderegex, $postcode2check)) {

        echo "$postcode2check is a valid postcode<br>";

    } else {

        echo "$postcode2check is not a valid postcode<br>";

    }

?>

我希望它能帮助其他遇到这条线索寻找解决方案的人。

我看了一下上面的一些答案，我不建议使用@Dan的答案(12月15日至10日)中的模式，因为它错误地将近0.4%的有效邮政编码标记为无效，而其他的则没有。

军械测量所提供的代号开放服务包括:

包含英国所有当前邮政编码单位的列表

我使用grep从这些数据中针对完整的邮政编码列表(7月6日至13日)运行了上面的每个正则表达式:

cat CSV/*.csv |
    # Strip leading quotes
    sed -e 's/^"//g' |
    # Strip trailing quote and everything after it
    sed -e 's/".*//g' |
    # Strip any spaces
    sed -E -e 's/ +//g' |
    # Find any lines that do not match the expression
    grep --invert-match --perl-regexp "$pattern"

邮政编码共有1,686,202个。

以下是与每个$模式不匹配的有效邮政编码的数量:

'^([A-PR-UWYZ0-9][A-HK-Y0-9][AEHMNPRTVXY0-9]?[ABEHMNPRVWXY0-9]?[0-9][ABD-HJLN-UW-Z]{2}|GIR 0AA)$'
# => 6016 (0.36%)

'^(GIR ?0AA|[A-PR-UWYZ]([0-9]{1,2}|([A-HK-Y][0-9]([0-9ABEHMNPRV-Y])?)|[0-9][A-HJKPS-UW]) ?[0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2})$'
# => 0

'^GIR[ ]?0AA|((AB|AL|B|BA|BB|BD|BH|BL|BN|BR|BS|BT|BX|CA|CB|CF|CH|CM|CO|CR|CT|CV|CW|DA|DD|DE|DG|DH|DL|DN|DT|DY|E|EC|EH|EN|EX|FK|FY|G|GL|GY|GU|HA|HD|HG|HP|HR|HS|HU|HX|IG|IM|IP|IV|JE|KA|KT|KW|KY|L|LA|LD|LE|LL|LN|LS|LU|M|ME|MK|ML|N|NE|NG|NN|NP|NR|NW|OL|OX|PA|PE|PH|PL|PO|PR|RG|RH|RM|S|SA|SE|SG|SK|SL|SM|SN|SO|SP|SR|SS|ST|SW|SY|TA|TD|TF|TN|TQ|TR|TS|TW|UB|W|WA|WC|WD|WF|WN|WR|WS|WV|YO|ZE)(\d[\dA-Z]?[ ]?\d[ABD-HJLN-UW-Z]{2}))|BFPO[ ]?\d{1,4}$'
# => 0

当然，这些结果只处理被错误地标记为无效的有效邮政编码。所以:

'^.*$'
# => 0

在过滤无效邮编方面，我并没有说哪种模式是最好的。

虽然这里有很多答案，但我对其中任何一个都不满意。他们中的大多数只是简单地坏了，太复杂或只是坏了。

我看了@ctwheels的答案，我发现它非常具有解释性和正确性;我们必须为此感谢他。然而，对我来说，如此简单的事情又有太多的“数据”了。

幸运的是，我设法获得了一个数据库，其中仅包含英国的100多万个活动邮政编码，并编写了一个小型PowerShell脚本来测试和基准测试结果。

英国邮政编码规格:有效的邮政编码格式。

这是“我的”正则表达式:

^([a-zA-Z]{1,2}[a-zA-Z\d]{1,2})\s(\d[a-zA-Z]{2})$

简短，简单，甜蜜。即使是最没有经验的人也能明白发生了什么。

解释:

^ asserts position at start of a line
    1st Capturing Group ([a-zA-Z]{1,2}[a-zA-Z\d]{1,2})
        Match a single character present in the list below [a-zA-Z]
        {1,2} matches the previous token between 1 and 2 times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
        a-z matches a single character in the range between a (index 97) and z (index 122) (case sensitive)
        A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive)
        Match a single character present in the list below [a-zA-Z\d]
        {1,2} matches the previous token between 1 and 2 times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
        a-z matches a single character in the range between a (index 97) and z (index 122) (case sensitive)
        A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive)
        \d matches a digit (equivalent to [0-9])
        \s matches any whitespace character (equivalent to [\r\n\t\f\v ])
    2nd Capturing Group (\d[a-zA-Z]{2})
        \d matches a digit (equivalent to [0-9])
        Match a single character present in the list below [a-zA-Z]
        {2} matches the previous token exactly 2 times
        a-z matches a single character in the range between a (index 97) and z (index 122) (case sensitive)
        A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive)
$ asserts position at the end of a line

结果(已核对邮编):

TOTAL OK: 1469193
TOTAL FAILED: 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 5
Seconds           : 22
Milliseconds      : 718
Ticks             : 3227185939
TotalDays         : 0.00373516891087963
TotalHours        : 0.0896440538611111
TotalMinutes      : 5.37864323166667
TotalSeconds      : 322.7185939
TotalMilliseconds : 322718.5939

下面的方法将检查邮政编码并提供完整的信息

const isValidUKPostcode = postcode => {
    try {
        postcode = postcode.replace(/\s/g, "");
        const fromat = postcode
            .toUpperCase()
            .match(/^([A-Z]{1,2}\d{1,2}[A-Z]?)\s*(\d[A-Z]{2})$/);
        const finalValue = `${fromat[1]} ${fromat[2]}`;
        const regex = /^([Gg][Ii][Rr] 0[Aa]{2})|((([A-Za-z][0-9]{1,2})|(([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]{1,2})|(([AZa-z][0-9][A-Za-z])|([A-Za-z][A-Ha-hJ-Yj-y][0-9]?[A-Za-z]))))[0-9][A-Za-z]{2})$/i;
        return {
            isValid: regex.test(postcode),
            formatedPostCode: finalValue,
            error: false,
            message: 'It is a valid postcode'
        };
    } catch (error) {
        return { error: true , message: 'Invalid postcode'};
    }
};

console.log(isValidUKPostcode('GU348RR'))
{isValid: true, formattedPostcode: "GU34 8RR", error: false, message: "It is a valid postcode"}

console.log(isValidUKPostcode('sdasd4746asd'))
{error: true, message: "Invalid postcode!"}

valid_postcode('787898523')
result => {error: true, message: "Invalid postcode"}

我从一个XML文档中窃取了这个，它似乎涵盖了没有硬编码的GIRO的所有情况:

%r{[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9R][0-9A-Z]? [0-9][A-Z]{2}}i

(Ruby语法忽略大小写)