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Ale
Ale

Reputation: 1052

(js)regular expression for matching a words only

I'm making a dictionary application and need an regexp that check if the users input is only letters and spaces eventually. This is probably the most easiest regexp but i can figure it out. So far i have

/^[\w\D]$/

which is not working :/

sorry guys, forgot to mention that will need to exclude all spec characters also.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 102

Answers (3)

Denys Séguret
Denys Séguret

Reputation: 382474

You seem to want this one :

/^[\u00C0-\u1FFF\u2C00-\uD7FFa-zA-Z\s]+$/

It should accept only characters (including "not English" characters like the ones you have in Spanish and Cyrillic) as well as spaces, but exclude digits.

Example :

/^[\u00C0-\u1FFF\u2C00-\uD7FFa-zA-Z\s]+$/.test("переполнения стека")

returns true

Upvotes: 4

user1726343
user1726343

Reputation:

To match a string consisting only of letters and whitespace characters, you can use:

/^[a-zA-Z\s]+$/

Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888243

Your regular expression matches exactly one such character.

You can add the + modifier to match one or more characters.

Upvotes: 1

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