php regular expression match any word characters except numbers

Question

I need to get everything from this regular expression except numbers, how can i do it ?

^[\w'-`´]{1,50}$

So, the problem here is that \w matches numbers too, a and i don't want it to match numbers. I want the regular expression returning everything that is already returning except the numbers!

Answer 1

Something like this would work:

^(?=\D+$)[\w'`´-]{1,50}$

This will first assert that there are no digits in the string, then use your current check.

The - has been moved to the end, otherwise it has special meaning. Thanks MikeM for pointing that out.

Answer 2

I want '-`´ plus the characters that \w matches without numbers

What's wrong with this if you want the specific characters and what \w matches except for numbers?

^[a-zA-Z'`´_-]{1,50}$