clem
How to validate full string with Regex
I currently developing a rest API with elixir and plug.
I will like to validate user input to accept only letters, but when I use the regex, it only validates a letter, not the full string.
Example:
String.match?(“A”, ~r/[1]$/i) returns true, but when I try String.match?(“foo”, ~r/[2]$/i) returns false.
Any help, please?
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NobbZ
Letters and numbers is broad… I consider ä a letter, do you? What’s about Chinese scripts? Or kyrillic? Greek? Persian numbers? Do you consider those as valid?
If you restrict to Arabic numerals and Latin letters in upper and lowercase it’s something like this:
~r/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/
zachgarwood
If you don’t mind underscores in there as well, you could use the \w “word characters” class, for example:
~r/^\w+$/
The \w class is equivalent to [A-Za-z0-9_].
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