Question

I am looking for a regular expression which accepts the text with spaces and consists of the below characters. Can one of you quickly guide me through? I have been trying to create one, but it is taking too much time to do.

A-Z,a-z,0-9, , , :,;(,),-,_#,/,\,.,&,`

I should be able to control the whole length as well. The input can include multiple words.

Answer 1

This should work for you

/^[\w\s:;.,&`()\/\\-]+$/

Explanation

NODE                     EXPLANATION
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  ^                        the beginning of the string
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  [\w\s:;.,&`()\/\\-]+     any character of: word characters (a-z, A-
                           Z, 0-9, _), whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f,
                           and " "), ':', ';', '.', ',', '&', '`',
                           '(', ')', '/', '\', '-' (1 or more times
                           (matching the most amount possible))
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  $                        before an optional \n, and the end of the
                           string