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RegEx for Javascript to allow only alphanumeric


I need to find a reg ex that only allows alphanumeric. So far, everyone I try only works if the string is alphanumeric, meaning contains both a letter and a number. I just want one what would allow either and not require both.


Solution

  • /^[a-z0-9]+$/i
    
    ^         Start of string
    [a-z0-9]  a or b or c or ... z or 0 or 1 or ... 9
    +         one or more times (change to * to allow empty string)
    $         end of string    
    /i        case-insensitive
    

    Update (supporting universal characters)

    if you need to this regexp supports universal character you can find list of unicode characters here.

    for example: /^([a-zA-Z0-9\u0600-\u06FF\u0660-\u0669\u06F0-\u06F9 _.-]+)$/

    this will support persian.