Question

This regular expression checks for alphabetic, numeric and basic symbols:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9 :,.-\s\?\!()]+$/

I need to add the “;” character, but how can I do this, can’t find how to escape that one \; is not working.

Thanks for help 😉

Answer 1

Update:

Just noticed as pointed out by @Tim Pietzcker, you don’t need to escape ? and ! but - needs escapting since it creates ranges:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9 :,.\-\s?!();]+$/

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There is no need escapting it in that character class, add it directly:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9 :,.-\s\?\!();]+$/