javascript regex validate years in range

Question

I have input field for year and I need a regex for validation it. I have such code: ^([12]\\d)?(\\d\\d)$. But I want allow to validate only years in certain range (

Answer 1

Regex for Current Year(Dynamic) from 1995

var current_year = new Date().getFullYear().toString().split("");
var reg=new RegExp("^(199[5-9]|200[0-9]|[0-"+current_year[0]+"][0-"+current_year[1]+"][0-"+current_year[2]+"][0-"+current_year[3]+"])$");
reg.test("1995");

Answer 2

RegExp does not seem to be the right tool here. If you have the year values already isolated surely a simple comparison would work :

if (+yr >= 1990 && +yr <= 2010)

The +yr converts the string to a number