diff --git a/accurest-core/src/main/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatterns.groovy b/accurest-core/src/main/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatterns.groovy
index 0f530bbf8f..5327bcff66 100644
--- a/accurest-core/src/main/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatterns.groovy
+++ b/accurest-core/src/main/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatterns.groovy
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ class RegexPatterns {
 
 	private static final Pattern TRUE_OR_FALSE = Pattern.compile(/(true|false)/)
 	private static final Pattern ONLY_ALPHA_UNICODE = Pattern.compile(/[\p{L}]*/)
+	private static final Pattern NUMBER = Pattern.compile('-?\\d*(\\.\\d+)?')
 	private static final Pattern IP_ADDRESS = Pattern.compile('([01]?\\d\\d?|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])\\.([01]?\\d\\d?|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])\\.([01]?\\d\\d?|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])\\.([01]?\\d\\d?|2[0-4]\\d|25[0-5])');
 	private static final Pattern HOSTNAME_PATTERN = Pattern.compile('((http[s]?|ftp):\\/)\\/?([^:\\/\\s]+)(:[0-9]{1,5})?');
 	private static final Pattern EMAIL = Pattern.compile('[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}');
-	private static final Pattern URL = Pattern.compile('((www\\.|(http|https|ftp|news|file)+\\:\\/\\/)[_.a-z0-9-]+\\.[a-z0-9\\/_:@=.+?,##%&~-]*[^.|\\\'|\\# |!|\\(|?|,| |>|<|;|\\)])');
+	private static final Pattern URL = Pattern.compile('((www\\.|(http|https|ftp|news|file)+\\:\\/\\/)[_.a-z0-9-]+\\.[a-z0-9\\/_:@=.+?,##%&~-]*[^.|\\\'|\\# |!|\\(|?|,| |>|<|;|\\)])')
 
 
 	String onlyAlphaUnicode() {
@@ -38,4 +39,8 @@ class RegexPatterns {
 	String url() {
 		return URL.pattern()
 	}
+
+	String number() {
+		return NUMBER.pattern()
+	}
 }
diff --git a/accurest-core/src/test/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatternsSpec.groovy b/accurest-core/src/test/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatternsSpec.groovy
index 848ed8511d..bc217f336e 100644
--- a/accurest-core/src/test/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatternsSpec.groovy
+++ b/accurest-core/src/test/groovy/io/codearte/accurest/dsl/internal/RegexPatternsSpec.groovy
@@ -52,4 +52,17 @@ class RegexPatternsSpec extends Specification {
 			'ftp://asd.com:9090/asd/a?a=b' || true
 			'a.b.'                         || false
 	}
+
+	@Unroll
+	def "should generate a regex for a number [#textToMatch] that is a match [#shouldMatch]"() {
+		expect:
+			shouldMatch == Pattern.compile(regexPatterns.number()).matcher(textToMatch).matches()
+		where:
+			textToMatch || shouldMatch
+			'1'         || true
+			'1.0'       || true
+			'0.1'       || true
+			'.1'        || true
+			'1.'        || false
+	}
 }