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Due to the fact, that I am storing txId obtained from the user, before determining whether transaction has been ended or not, I want to make sure that the transaction hash, which will be stored in my database, has a correct format.

Is there any way to accomplish this task?

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The transaction hash is the result of hashing the rlp-encoded transaction with keccak256() (many APIs erroneously call it sha3()). The hash produces 32 bytes data. When hex-encoded, that produces 64 hex characters (0-9, a-f, or A-F), plus usually an "0x" prefix. For example:

"0x0123456789abcdefABCDEF0123456789abcdefABCDEF0123456789abcdefABCD"
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  • Thank you for your answer. I just used following regex: r"^(0x[A-Fa-f0-9]{64})$"
    – D Komo
    Commented Oct 12, 2018 at 16:12

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