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Alon Gubkin
Alon Gubkin

Reputation: 57129

RegEx for matching "A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _" and "."

I need a regex which will allow only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, the _ character, and dot (.) in the input.

I tried:

[A-Za-z0-9_.]

But, it did not work. How can I fix it?

Upvotes: 50

Views: 348684

Answers (6)

Asad Ashraf
Asad Ashraf

Reputation: 1645

For me, i was looking for a regex like Gmail has, should allow a-z, A-z, 0-9, _, . only here is the Yup format for it i used:

Email: Yup.string()
      .email("Please Provide Valid Email")
      .matches(
        /^\w+([.-]?\w+)*@\w+([.-]?\w+)*(.\w{2,3})+$/,
        "Only a-z A-Z _ . 0-9 are allowed in this Field"
       )

Upvotes: 0

Austyns
Austyns

Reputation: 760

You could simply use ^[\w.]+ to match A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and _

Upvotes: 2

Prem Sai
Prem Sai

Reputation: 1

regex: /^[a-zA-Z0-9_.]$/i

This works

Upvotes: 0

Ikke
Ikke

Reputation: 101231

^[A-Za-z0-9_.]+$

From beginning until the end of the string, match one or more of these characters.

Edit:

Note that ^ and $ match the beginning and the end of a line. When multiline is enabled, this can mean that one line matches, but not the complete string.

Use \A for the beginning of the string, and \z for the end.

See for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h5181w5w(v=vs.110).aspx

Upvotes: 93

René Nyffenegger
René Nyffenegger

Reputation: 40499

Maybe, you need to specify more exactly what didn't work and in what environment you are.

As to the claim that the dot is special in a charackter class, this is not true in every programming environment. For example the following perl script 

use warnings;
use strict;

my $str = '!!!.###';
$str =~ s/[A-Za-z_.]/X/g;
print "$str\n";

produces

!!!X###

Upvotes: 0

Pete Duncanson
Pete Duncanson

Reputation: 3246

Working from what you've given I'll assume you want to check that someone has NOT entered any letters other than the ones you've listed. For that to work you want to search for any characters other than those listed:

[^A-Za-z0-9_.]

And use that in a match in your code, something like:

if ( /[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/.match( your_input_string ) ) {
   alert( "you have entered invalid data" );
}

Hows that?

Upvotes: 7

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