Question

In my current regular expression, I am negating digits:

$(function(){
  $("#somewhat").bind("keyup",
   function(event) {
     var regex = /^[\D]*$/;
     alert(regex.test($("#somewhat").val()));
  });
});

What I have in my mind is to add some special characters on which I should negate, !@#$%^&*()_+=<>.?/~`:;” , and leaving dash, apostrophe ( -‘ ) to the valid list. I’m still kind of dizzy on this regular expression thing. To test with, I added + on the regex,

var regex = /^[\D+]*$/;

When I test it, the alert box returns TRUE, which is not I am expecting.

Answer 1

Inside [ ] please add all the characters you don’t want to allow.

/^((?![\d!@#$%^&*()_+=<>.?/~`:;"]).)*$/

But can we rely on negating given characters ? because user will be able to enter any character other than these. If you want to allow non-English characters, I would suggest you to use Unicode ranges

see this : http://kourge.net/projects/regexp-unicode-block