Trying to get the correct regex for this - only letters, spaces, hypens, and commas. So far this only works if you only input 1 charactor. Any more then that, and it returns false. Anyone able to help?
$('#submit').click(function () {
var locationtest = /[^a-zA-Z \-\.\,]/;
if (!locationtest.test($('#location').val())) {
alert('Nope, try again!');
$('#location').val('')
return false;
} else {
alert('You got it!');
}
});`
This should do it, it matches 1 or more characters within the set you described
/^[a-zA-Z \-\,]+$/
I took out the \., your description says letters, spaces, hyphens, commas
You're close, you just need to specify how many times you want the character to appear.
The following code would specify 0 or more times var locationtest = /[^a-zA-Z -.\,]*/;
And this code would specify 1 or more times var locationtest = /[^a-zA-Z -.\,]+/;
The importance being the * and + characters.
Add a quantifier + and the global flag /g:
var locationtest = /[^a-zA-Z \-\.\,]+/g;
Your expression is correct, you just need to invert the match result.
/[^a-zA-Z \-\.\,]/
Will match if the string contains any char that is not what you want (the leading ^ in the character class).
I.e remove the !:
var locationtest = /[^a-zA-Z \-\.\,]/;
if (locationtest.test($('#location').val())) {
alert('Nope, try again!');
$('#location').val('')
return false;
} else {
alert('You got it!');
}
Note that empty string will pass as valid, if you don't want that, you can use this instead:
/[^a-zA-Z \-\.\,]|^$/
