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title: 'You can use whereNumber() on routes instead of passing a regex pattern to where()'
tweet_id: '1495414943612506113'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-07
author_username: Sileence
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created_at: 2022-02-20T15:08:00+00:00
slug: you-can-use-wherenumber-on-routes-instead-of-passing-a-regex-pattern-to-where
---
I'm reading the Laravel 9 docs from scratch and TIL you can write your route restrictions in a more expressive way: