Question

I have a “description textarea” inside a form where user may enter a description for an item.

This is validated with javascript before the form beeing submitted.

One of the validation-steps is this:

  else if (!fld.value.match(desExp)){

And desExp:

 var desExp = /^\s*(\w[^\w]*){3}.*$/gm;

Now my problem, this works fine on all cases except for descriptions where the description BEGINS with a special character of the swedish language (å, ä, ö).

This wont work:

    åäö hello world

But this will:

    hello world åäö

Any fixes?

Thanks

Answer 1

I’d imagine using a broader category would work, something like:

/^\s*([\wåäö][^\w]*){3}.*$/gm;