JavaScript & regex : How do I check if the string is ASCII only? - javascript

I know I can validate against string with words ( 0-9 A-Z a-z and underscore ) by applying W in regex like this:
function isValid(str) { return /^\w+$/.test(str); }
But how do I check whether the string contains ASCII characters only? ( I think I'm close, but what did I miss? )
Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8253200/188331
UPDATE : Standard character set is enough for my case.

All you need to do it test that the characters are in the right character range.
function isASCII(str) {
return /^[\x00-\x7F]*$/.test(str);
}
Or if you want to possibly use the extended ASCII character set:
function isASCII(str, extended) {
return (extended ? /^[\x00-\xFF]*$/ : /^[\x00-\x7F]*$/).test(str);
}

You don't need a RegEx to do it, just check if all characters in that string have a char code between 0 and 127:
function isValid(str){
if(typeof(str)!=='string'){
return false;
}
for(var i=0;i<str.length;i++){
if(str.charCodeAt(i)>127){
return false;
}
}
return true;
}

For ES2018, Regexp support Unicode property escapes, you can use /[\p{ASCII}]+/u to match the ASCII characters. It's much clear now.
Supported browsers:
Chrome 64+
Safari/JavaScriptCore beginning in Safari Technology Preview 42

var check = function(checkString) {
var invalidCharsFound = false;
for (var i = 0; i < checkString.length; i++) {
var charValue = checkString.charCodeAt(i);
/**
* do not accept characters over 127
**/
if (charValue > 127) {
invalidCharsFound = true;
break;
}
}
return invalidCharsFound;
};

Related

how to search and replace Single Quotes in a String in JavaScript [duplicate]

I want to check if a string contains special characters like !##$%^&*.,<>/\'";:? and return true if the string contains atleast one of those chars.
I tried with the following regex,script:
var format = /^[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]*$/;
if( string.match(format) ){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
If the string contains only the special characters then it returns true , but if the string contains something else like alphanumeric chars ( !example1 , .example2 ) it returns false.
I suggest using RegExp .test() function to check for a pattern match, and the only thing you need to change is remove the start/end of line anchors (and the * quantifier is also redundant) in the regex:
var format = /[ `!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
// ^ ^
document.write(format.test("My#string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("MyStringContainingNoSpecialChars"));
The anchors (like ^ start of string/line, $ end od string/line and \b word boundaries) can restrict matches at specific places in a string. When using ^ the regex engine checks if the next subpattern appears right at the start of the string (or line if /m modifier is declared in the regex). Same case with $: the preceding subpattern should match right at the end of the string.
In your case, you want to check the existence of the special character from the set anywhere in the string. Even if it is only one, you want to return false. Thus, you should remove the anchors, and the quantifier *. The * quantifier would match even an empty string, thus we must remove it in order to actually check for the presence of at least 1 special character (actually, without any quantifiers we check for exactly one occurrence, same as if we were using {1} limiting quantifier).
More specific solutions
What characters are "special" for you?
All chars other than ASCII chars: /[^\x00-\x7F]/ (demo)
All chars other than printable ASCII chars: /[^ -~]/ (demo)
Any printable ASCII chars other than space, letters and digits: /[!-\/:-#[-`{-~]/ (demo)
Any Unicode punctuation proper chars, the \p{P} Unicode property class:
ECMAScript 2018: /\p{P}/u
ES6+:
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● ES5 (demo):
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All Unicode symbols (not punctuation proper), \p{S}:
ECMAScript 2018: /\p{S}/u
ES6+:
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● ES5 (demo):
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All Unicode punctuation and symbols, \p{P} and \p{S}:
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Your regexp use ^ and $ so it tries to match the entire string. And if you want only a boolean as the result, use test instead of match.
var format = /[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;
if(format.test(string)){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
Wouldn't it be easier to negative-match alphanumerics instead?
return string.match(/^[^a-zA-Z0-9]+$/) ? true : false;
var specialChars = "<>#!#$%^&*()_+[]{}?:;|'\"\\,./~`-=";
var checkForSpecialChar = function(string){
for(i = 0; i < specialChars.length;i++){
if(string.indexOf(specialChars[i]) > -1){
return true
}
}
return false;
}
var str = "YourText";
if(checkForSpecialChar(str)){
alert("Not Valid");
} else {
alert("Valid");
}
Remove the characters ^ (start of string) and $ (end of string) from the regular expression.
var format = /[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]/;
var format = /[`!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
// ^ ^
document.write(format.test("My #string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My StringContainingNoSpecialChars"));
Simple solution
let text = "12AB"
const specialChars = `/[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;`
const isSpecialCharsPresent = specialChars.split('').some(char =>
text.includes(char)) // true if present and false if not
console.log(isSpecialCharsPresent) // false
let text = "12AB."
console.log(isSpecialCharsPresent) // true
Check if a string contains at least one password special character:
For reference: ASCII Table -- Printable Characters
Special character ranges in the ASCII table are:
Space to /
: to #
[ to `
{ to ~
Therefore, use this:
/[ -/:-#[-`{-~]/.test(string)
I just did this,
if(string.match(/\W/)){
return true; // Contains at least one special character or space
} else {
return false;
}
You can use this regex for specials chars : /\W/
I took an alternative approuch, without using REGEX, O(n) in performence:
function hasSpecialChars(str) {
const specialCharsSet = new Set("!##$%^&*()_");
for (let letter of str) {
if (specialCharsSet.has(letter)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
You can try this:
regex = [\W_]
It will definitely help you.

How do I block a TAB `\t` or other Special Characters from input fields during a PASTE with jQuery? [duplicate]

I want to check if a string contains special characters like !##$%^&*.,<>/\'";:? and return true if the string contains atleast one of those chars.
I tried with the following regex,script:
var format = /^[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]*$/;
if( string.match(format) ){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
If the string contains only the special characters then it returns true , but if the string contains something else like alphanumeric chars ( !example1 , .example2 ) it returns false.
I suggest using RegExp .test() function to check for a pattern match, and the only thing you need to change is remove the start/end of line anchors (and the * quantifier is also redundant) in the regex:
var format = /[ `!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
// ^ ^
document.write(format.test("My#string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("MyStringContainingNoSpecialChars"));
The anchors (like ^ start of string/line, $ end od string/line and \b word boundaries) can restrict matches at specific places in a string. When using ^ the regex engine checks if the next subpattern appears right at the start of the string (or line if /m modifier is declared in the regex). Same case with $: the preceding subpattern should match right at the end of the string.
In your case, you want to check the existence of the special character from the set anywhere in the string. Even if it is only one, you want to return false. Thus, you should remove the anchors, and the quantifier *. The * quantifier would match even an empty string, thus we must remove it in order to actually check for the presence of at least 1 special character (actually, without any quantifiers we check for exactly one occurrence, same as if we were using {1} limiting quantifier).
More specific solutions
What characters are "special" for you?
All chars other than ASCII chars: /[^\x00-\x7F]/ (demo)
All chars other than printable ASCII chars: /[^ -~]/ (demo)
Any printable ASCII chars other than space, letters and digits: /[!-\/:-#[-`{-~]/ (demo)
Any Unicode punctuation proper chars, the \p{P} Unicode property class:
ECMAScript 2018: /\p{P}/u
ES6+:
/[!-#%-*,-\/:;?#[-\]_{}\u00A1\u00A7\u00AB\u00B6\u00B7\u00BB\u00BF\u037E\u0387\u055A-\u055F\u0589\u058A\u05BE\u05C0\u05C3\u05C6\u05F3\u05F4\u0609\u060A\u060C\u060D\u061B\u061E\u061F\u066A-\u066D\u06D4\u0700-\u070D\u07F7-\u07F9\u0830-\u083E\u085E\u0964\u0965\u0970\u09FD\u0A76\u0AF0\u0C84\u0DF4\u0E4F\u0E5A\u0E5B\u0F04-\u0F12\u0F14\u0F3A-\u0F3D\u0F85\u0FD0-\u0FD4\u0FD9\u0FDA\u104A-\u104F\u10FB\u1360-\u1368\u1400\u166D\u166E\u169B\u169C\u16EB-\u16ED\u1735\u1736\u17D4-\u17D6\u17D8-\u17DA\u1800-\u180A\u1944\u1945\u1A1E\u1A1F\u1AA0-\u1AA6\u1AA8-\u1AAD\u1B5A-\u1B60\u1BFC-\u1BFF\u1C3B-\u1C3F\u1C7E\u1C7F\u1CC0-\u1CC7\u1CD3\u2010-\u2027\u2030-\u2043\u2045-\u2051\u2053-\u205E\u207D\u207E\u208D\u208E\u2308-\u230B\u2329\u232A\u2768-\u2775\u27C5\u27C6\u27E6-\u27EF\u2983-\u2998\u29D8-\u29DB\u29FC\u29FD\u2CF9-\u2CFC\u2CFE\u2CFF\u2D70\u2E00-\u2E2E\u2E30-\u2E4E\u3001-\u3003\u3008-\u3011\u3014-\u301F\u3030\u303D\u30A0\u30FB\uA4FE\uA4FF\uA60D-\uA60F\uA673\uA67E\uA6F2-\uA6F7\uA874-\uA877\uA8CE\uA8CF\uA8F8-\uA8FA\uA8FC\uA92E\uA92F\uA95F\uA9C1-\uA9CD\uA9DE\uA9DF\uAA5C-\uAA5F\uAADE\uAADF\uAAF0\uAAF1\uABEB\uFD3E\uFD3F\uFE10-\uFE19\uFE30-\uFE52\uFE54-\uFE61\uFE63\uFE68\uFE6A\uFE6B\uFF01-\uFF03\uFF05-\uFF0A\uFF0C-\uFF0F\uFF1A\uFF1B\uFF1F\uFF20\uFF3B-\uFF3D\uFF3F\uFF5B\uFF5D\uFF5F-\uFF65\u{10100}-\u{10102}\u{1039F}\u{103D0}\u{1056F}\u{10857}\u{1091F}\u{1093F}\u{10A50}-\u{10A58}\u{10A7F}\u{10AF0}-\u{10AF6}\u{10B39}-\u{10B3F}\u{10B99}-\u{10B9C}\u{10F55}-\u{10F59}\u{11047}-\u{1104D}\u{110BB}\u{110BC}\u{110BE}-\u{110C1}\u{11140}-\u{11143}\u{11174}\u{11175}\u{111C5}-\u{111C8}\u{111CD}\u{111DB}\u{111DD}-\u{111DF}\u{11238}-\u{1123D}\u{112A9}\u{1144B}-\u{1144F}\u{1145B}\u{1145D}\u{114C6}\u{115C1}-\u{115D7}\u{11641}-\u{11643}\u{11660}-\u{1166C}\u{1173C}-\u{1173E}\u{1183B}\u{11A3F}-\u{11A46}\u{11A9A}-\u{11A9C}\u{11A9E}-\u{11AA2}\u{11C41}-\u{11C45}\u{11C70}\u{11C71}\u{11EF7}\u{11EF8}\u{12470}-\u{12474}\u{16A6E}\u{16A6F}\u{16AF5}\u{16B37}-\u{16B3B}\u{16B44}\u{16E97}-\u{16E9A}\u{1BC9F}\u{1DA87}-\u{1DA8B}\u{1E95E}\u{1E95F}]/u
● ES5 (demo):
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All Unicode symbols (not punctuation proper), \p{S}:
ECMAScript 2018: /\p{S}/u
ES6+:
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● ES5 (demo):
/(?:[$+^`|~\xA2-\xA6\xA8\xA9\xAC\xAE-\xB1\xB4\xB8\xD7\xF7\u02C2-\u02C5\u02D2-\u02DF\u02E5-\u02EB\u02ED\u02EF-\u02FF\u0375\u0384\u0385\u03F6\u0482\u058D-\u058F\u0606-\u0608\u060B\u060E\u060F\u06DE\u06E9\u06FD\u06FE\u07F6\u07FE\u07FF\u09F2\u09F3\u09FA\u09FB\u0AF1\u0B70\u0BF3-\u0BFA\u0C7F\u0D4F\u0D79\u0E3F\u0F01-\u0F03\u0F13\u0F15-\u0F17\u0F1A-\u0F1F\u0F34\u0F36\u0F38\u0FBE-\u0FC5\u0FC7-\u0FCC\u0FCE\u0FCF\u0FD5-\u0FD8\u109E\u109F\u1390-\u1399\u17DB\u1940\u19DE-\u19FF\u1B61-\u1B6A\u1B74-\u1B7C\u1FBD\u1FBF-\u1FC1\u1FCD-\u1FCF\u1FDD-\u1FDF\u1FED-\u1FEF\u1FFD\u1FFE\u2044\u2052\u207A-\u207C\u208A-\u208C\u20A0-\u20BF\u2100\u2101\u2103-\u2106\u2108\u2109\u2114\u2116-\u2118\u211E-\u2123\u2125\u2127\u2129\u212E\u213A\u213B\u2140-\u2144\u214A-\u214D\u214F\u218A\u218B\u2190-\u2307\u230C-\u2328\u232B-\u2426\u2440-\u244A\u249C-\u24E9\u2500-\u2767\u2794-\u27C4\u27C7-\u27E5\u27F0-\u2982\u2999-\u29D7\u29DC-\u29FB\u29FE-\u2B73\u2B76-\u2B95\u2B98-\u2BC8\u2BCA-\u2BFE\u2CE5-\u2CEA\u2E80-\u2E99\u2E9B-\u2EF3\u2F00-\u2FD5\u2FF0-\u2FFB\u3004\u3012\u3013\u3020\u3036\u3037\u303E\u303F\u309B\u309C\u3190\u3191\u3196-\u319F\u31C0-\u31E3\u3200-\u321E\u322A-\u3247\u3250\u3260-\u327F\u328A-\u32B0\u32C0-\u32FE\u3300-\u33FF\u4DC0-\u4DFF\uA490-\uA4C6\uA700-\uA716\uA720\uA721\uA789\uA78A\uA828-\uA82B\uA836-\uA839\uAA77-\uAA79\uAB5B\uFB29\uFBB2-\uFBC1\uFDFC\uFDFD\uFE62\uFE64-\uFE66\uFE69\uFF04\uFF0B\uFF1C-\uFF1E\uFF3E\uFF40\uFF5C\uFF5E\uFFE0-\uFFE6\uFFE8-\uFFEE\uFFFC\uFFFD]|\uD800[\uDD37-\uDD3F\uDD79-\uDD89\uDD8C-\uDD8E\uDD90-\uDD9B\uDDA0\uDDD0-\uDDFC]|\uD802[\uDC77\uDC78\uDEC8]|\uD805\uDF3F|\uD81A[\uDF3C-\uDF3F\uDF45]|\uD82F\uDC9C|\uD834[\uDC00-\uDCF5\uDD00-\uDD26\uDD29-\uDD64\uDD6A-\uDD6C\uDD83\uDD84\uDD8C-\uDDA9\uDDAE-\uDDE8\uDE00-\uDE41\uDE45\uDF00-\uDF56]|\uD835[\uDEC1\uDEDB\uDEFB\uDF15\uDF35\uDF4F\uDF6F\uDF89\uDFA9\uDFC3]|\uD836[\uDC00-\uDDFF\uDE37-\uDE3A\uDE6D-\uDE74\uDE76-\uDE83\uDE85\uDE86]|\uD83B[\uDCAC\uDCB0\uDEF0\uDEF1]|\uD83C[\uDC00-\uDC2B\uDC30-\uDC93\uDCA0-\uDCAE\uDCB1-\uDCBF\uDCC1-\uDCCF\uDCD1-\uDCF5\uDD10-\uDD6B\uDD70-\uDDAC\uDDE6-\uDE02\uDE10-\uDE3B\uDE40-\uDE48\uDE50\uDE51\uDE60-\uDE65\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDED4\uDEE0-\uDEEC\uDEF0-\uDEF9\uDF00-\uDF73\uDF80-\uDFD8]|\uD83E[\uDC00-\uDC0B\uDC10-\uDC47\uDC50-\uDC59\uDC60-\uDC87\uDC90-\uDCAD\uDD00-\uDD0B\uDD10-\uDD3E\uDD40-\uDD70\uDD73-\uDD76\uDD7A\uDD7C-\uDDA2\uDDB0-\uDDB9\uDDC0-\uDDC2\uDDD0-\uDDFF\uDE60-\uDE6D])/
All Unicode punctuation and symbols, \p{P} and \p{S}:
ECMAScript 2018: /[\p{P}\p{S}]/u
ES6+:
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Your regexp use ^ and $ so it tries to match the entire string. And if you want only a boolean as the result, use test instead of match.
var format = /[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;
if(format.test(string)){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
Wouldn't it be easier to negative-match alphanumerics instead?
return string.match(/^[^a-zA-Z0-9]+$/) ? true : false;
var specialChars = "<>#!#$%^&*()_+[]{}?:;|'\"\\,./~`-=";
var checkForSpecialChar = function(string){
for(i = 0; i < specialChars.length;i++){
if(string.indexOf(specialChars[i]) > -1){
return true
}
}
return false;
}
var str = "YourText";
if(checkForSpecialChar(str)){
alert("Not Valid");
} else {
alert("Valid");
}
Remove the characters ^ (start of string) and $ (end of string) from the regular expression.
var format = /[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]/;
var format = /[`!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
// ^ ^
document.write(format.test("My #string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My StringContainingNoSpecialChars"));
Simple solution
let text = "12AB"
const specialChars = `/[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;`
const isSpecialCharsPresent = specialChars.split('').some(char =>
text.includes(char)) // true if present and false if not
console.log(isSpecialCharsPresent) // false
let text = "12AB."
console.log(isSpecialCharsPresent) // true
Check if a string contains at least one password special character:
For reference: ASCII Table -- Printable Characters
Special character ranges in the ASCII table are:
Space to /
: to #
[ to `
{ to ~
Therefore, use this:
/[ -/:-#[-`{-~]/.test(string)
I just did this,
if(string.match(/\W/)){
return true; // Contains at least one special character or space
} else {
return false;
}
You can use this regex for specials chars : /\W/
I took an alternative approuch, without using REGEX, O(n) in performence:
function hasSpecialChars(str) {
const specialCharsSet = new Set("!##$%^&*()_");
for (let letter of str) {
if (specialCharsSet.has(letter)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
You can try this:
regex = [\W_]
It will definitely help you.

Check for special characters in string

I want to check if a string contains special characters like !##$%^&*.,<>/\'";:? and return true if the string contains atleast one of those chars.
I tried with the following regex,script:
var format = /^[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]*$/;
if( string.match(format) ){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
If the string contains only the special characters then it returns true , but if the string contains something else like alphanumeric chars ( !example1 , .example2 ) it returns false.
I suggest using RegExp .test() function to check for a pattern match, and the only thing you need to change is remove the start/end of line anchors (and the * quantifier is also redundant) in the regex:
var format = /[ `!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
// ^ ^
document.write(format.test("My#string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("MyStringContainingNoSpecialChars"));
The anchors (like ^ start of string/line, $ end od string/line and \b word boundaries) can restrict matches at specific places in a string. When using ^ the regex engine checks if the next subpattern appears right at the start of the string (or line if /m modifier is declared in the regex). Same case with $: the preceding subpattern should match right at the end of the string.
In your case, you want to check the existence of the special character from the set anywhere in the string. Even if it is only one, you want to return false. Thus, you should remove the anchors, and the quantifier *. The * quantifier would match even an empty string, thus we must remove it in order to actually check for the presence of at least 1 special character (actually, without any quantifiers we check for exactly one occurrence, same as if we were using {1} limiting quantifier).
More specific solutions
What characters are "special" for you?
All chars other than ASCII chars: /[^\x00-\x7F]/ (demo)
All chars other than printable ASCII chars: /[^ -~]/ (demo)
Any printable ASCII chars other than space, letters and digits: /[!-\/:-#[-`{-~]/ (demo)
Any Unicode punctuation proper chars, the \p{P} Unicode property class:
ECMAScript 2018: /\p{P}/u
ES6+:
/[!-#%-*,-\/:;?#[-\]_{}\u00A1\u00A7\u00AB\u00B6\u00B7\u00BB\u00BF\u037E\u0387\u055A-\u055F\u0589\u058A\u05BE\u05C0\u05C3\u05C6\u05F3\u05F4\u0609\u060A\u060C\u060D\u061B\u061E\u061F\u066A-\u066D\u06D4\u0700-\u070D\u07F7-\u07F9\u0830-\u083E\u085E\u0964\u0965\u0970\u09FD\u0A76\u0AF0\u0C84\u0DF4\u0E4F\u0E5A\u0E5B\u0F04-\u0F12\u0F14\u0F3A-\u0F3D\u0F85\u0FD0-\u0FD4\u0FD9\u0FDA\u104A-\u104F\u10FB\u1360-\u1368\u1400\u166D\u166E\u169B\u169C\u16EB-\u16ED\u1735\u1736\u17D4-\u17D6\u17D8-\u17DA\u1800-\u180A\u1944\u1945\u1A1E\u1A1F\u1AA0-\u1AA6\u1AA8-\u1AAD\u1B5A-\u1B60\u1BFC-\u1BFF\u1C3B-\u1C3F\u1C7E\u1C7F\u1CC0-\u1CC7\u1CD3\u2010-\u2027\u2030-\u2043\u2045-\u2051\u2053-\u205E\u207D\u207E\u208D\u208E\u2308-\u230B\u2329\u232A\u2768-\u2775\u27C5\u27C6\u27E6-\u27EF\u2983-\u2998\u29D8-\u29DB\u29FC\u29FD\u2CF9-\u2CFC\u2CFE\u2CFF\u2D70\u2E00-\u2E2E\u2E30-\u2E4E\u3001-\u3003\u3008-\u3011\u3014-\u301F\u3030\u303D\u30A0\u30FB\uA4FE\uA4FF\uA60D-\uA60F\uA673\uA67E\uA6F2-\uA6F7\uA874-\uA877\uA8CE\uA8CF\uA8F8-\uA8FA\uA8FC\uA92E\uA92F\uA95F\uA9C1-\uA9CD\uA9DE\uA9DF\uAA5C-\uAA5F\uAADE\uAADF\uAAF0\uAAF1\uABEB\uFD3E\uFD3F\uFE10-\uFE19\uFE30-\uFE52\uFE54-\uFE61\uFE63\uFE68\uFE6A\uFE6B\uFF01-\uFF03\uFF05-\uFF0A\uFF0C-\uFF0F\uFF1A\uFF1B\uFF1F\uFF20\uFF3B-\uFF3D\uFF3F\uFF5B\uFF5D\uFF5F-\uFF65\u{10100}-\u{10102}\u{1039F}\u{103D0}\u{1056F}\u{10857}\u{1091F}\u{1093F}\u{10A50}-\u{10A58}\u{10A7F}\u{10AF0}-\u{10AF6}\u{10B39}-\u{10B3F}\u{10B99}-\u{10B9C}\u{10F55}-\u{10F59}\u{11047}-\u{1104D}\u{110BB}\u{110BC}\u{110BE}-\u{110C1}\u{11140}-\u{11143}\u{11174}\u{11175}\u{111C5}-\u{111C8}\u{111CD}\u{111DB}\u{111DD}-\u{111DF}\u{11238}-\u{1123D}\u{112A9}\u{1144B}-\u{1144F}\u{1145B}\u{1145D}\u{114C6}\u{115C1}-\u{115D7}\u{11641}-\u{11643}\u{11660}-\u{1166C}\u{1173C}-\u{1173E}\u{1183B}\u{11A3F}-\u{11A46}\u{11A9A}-\u{11A9C}\u{11A9E}-\u{11AA2}\u{11C41}-\u{11C45}\u{11C70}\u{11C71}\u{11EF7}\u{11EF8}\u{12470}-\u{12474}\u{16A6E}\u{16A6F}\u{16AF5}\u{16B37}-\u{16B3B}\u{16B44}\u{16E97}-\u{16E9A}\u{1BC9F}\u{1DA87}-\u{1DA8B}\u{1E95E}\u{1E95F}]/u
● ES5 (demo):
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All Unicode symbols (not punctuation proper), \p{S}:
ECMAScript 2018: /\p{S}/u
ES6+:
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● ES5 (demo):
/(?:[$+^`|~\xA2-\xA6\xA8\xA9\xAC\xAE-\xB1\xB4\xB8\xD7\xF7\u02C2-\u02C5\u02D2-\u02DF\u02E5-\u02EB\u02ED\u02EF-\u02FF\u0375\u0384\u0385\u03F6\u0482\u058D-\u058F\u0606-\u0608\u060B\u060E\u060F\u06DE\u06E9\u06FD\u06FE\u07F6\u07FE\u07FF\u09F2\u09F3\u09FA\u09FB\u0AF1\u0B70\u0BF3-\u0BFA\u0C7F\u0D4F\u0D79\u0E3F\u0F01-\u0F03\u0F13\u0F15-\u0F17\u0F1A-\u0F1F\u0F34\u0F36\u0F38\u0FBE-\u0FC5\u0FC7-\u0FCC\u0FCE\u0FCF\u0FD5-\u0FD8\u109E\u109F\u1390-\u1399\u17DB\u1940\u19DE-\u19FF\u1B61-\u1B6A\u1B74-\u1B7C\u1FBD\u1FBF-\u1FC1\u1FCD-\u1FCF\u1FDD-\u1FDF\u1FED-\u1FEF\u1FFD\u1FFE\u2044\u2052\u207A-\u207C\u208A-\u208C\u20A0-\u20BF\u2100\u2101\u2103-\u2106\u2108\u2109\u2114\u2116-\u2118\u211E-\u2123\u2125\u2127\u2129\u212E\u213A\u213B\u2140-\u2144\u214A-\u214D\u214F\u218A\u218B\u2190-\u2307\u230C-\u2328\u232B-\u2426\u2440-\u244A\u249C-\u24E9\u2500-\u2767\u2794-\u27C4\u27C7-\u27E5\u27F0-\u2982\u2999-\u29D7\u29DC-\u29FB\u29FE-\u2B73\u2B76-\u2B95\u2B98-\u2BC8\u2BCA-\u2BFE\u2CE5-\u2CEA\u2E80-\u2E99\u2E9B-\u2EF3\u2F00-\u2FD5\u2FF0-\u2FFB\u3004\u3012\u3013\u3020\u3036\u3037\u303E\u303F\u309B\u309C\u3190\u3191\u3196-\u319F\u31C0-\u31E3\u3200-\u321E\u322A-\u3247\u3250\u3260-\u327F\u328A-\u32B0\u32C0-\u32FE\u3300-\u33FF\u4DC0-\u4DFF\uA490-\uA4C6\uA700-\uA716\uA720\uA721\uA789\uA78A\uA828-\uA82B\uA836-\uA839\uAA77-\uAA79\uAB5B\uFB29\uFBB2-\uFBC1\uFDFC\uFDFD\uFE62\uFE64-\uFE66\uFE69\uFF04\uFF0B\uFF1C-\uFF1E\uFF3E\uFF40\uFF5C\uFF5E\uFFE0-\uFFE6\uFFE8-\uFFEE\uFFFC\uFFFD]|\uD800[\uDD37-\uDD3F\uDD79-\uDD89\uDD8C-\uDD8E\uDD90-\uDD9B\uDDA0\uDDD0-\uDDFC]|\uD802[\uDC77\uDC78\uDEC8]|\uD805\uDF3F|\uD81A[\uDF3C-\uDF3F\uDF45]|\uD82F\uDC9C|\uD834[\uDC00-\uDCF5\uDD00-\uDD26\uDD29-\uDD64\uDD6A-\uDD6C\uDD83\uDD84\uDD8C-\uDDA9\uDDAE-\uDDE8\uDE00-\uDE41\uDE45\uDF00-\uDF56]|\uD835[\uDEC1\uDEDB\uDEFB\uDF15\uDF35\uDF4F\uDF6F\uDF89\uDFA9\uDFC3]|\uD836[\uDC00-\uDDFF\uDE37-\uDE3A\uDE6D-\uDE74\uDE76-\uDE83\uDE85\uDE86]|\uD83B[\uDCAC\uDCB0\uDEF0\uDEF1]|\uD83C[\uDC00-\uDC2B\uDC30-\uDC93\uDCA0-\uDCAE\uDCB1-\uDCBF\uDCC1-\uDCCF\uDCD1-\uDCF5\uDD10-\uDD6B\uDD70-\uDDAC\uDDE6-\uDE02\uDE10-\uDE3B\uDE40-\uDE48\uDE50\uDE51\uDE60-\uDE65\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDED4\uDEE0-\uDEEC\uDEF0-\uDEF9\uDF00-\uDF73\uDF80-\uDFD8]|\uD83E[\uDC00-\uDC0B\uDC10-\uDC47\uDC50-\uDC59\uDC60-\uDC87\uDC90-\uDCAD\uDD00-\uDD0B\uDD10-\uDD3E\uDD40-\uDD70\uDD73-\uDD76\uDD7A\uDD7C-\uDDA2\uDDB0-\uDDB9\uDDC0-\uDDC2\uDDD0-\uDDFF\uDE60-\uDE6D])/
All Unicode punctuation and symbols, \p{P} and \p{S}:
ECMAScript 2018: /[\p{P}\p{S}]/u
ES6+:
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Your regexp use ^ and $ so it tries to match the entire string. And if you want only a boolean as the result, use test instead of match.
var format = /[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;
if(format.test(string)){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
Wouldn't it be easier to negative-match alphanumerics instead?
return string.match(/^[^a-zA-Z0-9]+$/) ? true : false;
var specialChars = "<>#!#$%^&*()_+[]{}?:;|'\"\\,./~`-=";
var checkForSpecialChar = function(string){
for(i = 0; i < specialChars.length;i++){
if(string.indexOf(specialChars[i]) > -1){
return true
}
}
return false;
}
var str = "YourText";
if(checkForSpecialChar(str)){
alert("Not Valid");
} else {
alert("Valid");
}
Remove the characters ^ (start of string) and $ (end of string) from the regular expression.
var format = /[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]/;
var format = /[`!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
// ^ ^
document.write(format.test("My #string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");
document.write(format.test("My StringContainingNoSpecialChars"));
Simple solution
let text = "12AB"
const specialChars = `/[!##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;`
const isSpecialCharsPresent = specialChars.split('').some(char =>
text.includes(char)) // true if present and false if not
console.log(isSpecialCharsPresent) // false
let text = "12AB."
console.log(isSpecialCharsPresent) // true
Check if a string contains at least one password special character:
For reference: ASCII Table -- Printable Characters
Special character ranges in the ASCII table are:
Space to /
: to #
[ to `
{ to ~
Therefore, use this:
/[ -/:-#[-`{-~]/.test(string)
I just did this,
if(string.match(/\W/)){
return true; // Contains at least one special character or space
} else {
return false;
}
You can use this regex for specials chars : /\W/
I took an alternative approuch, without using REGEX, O(n) in performence:
function hasSpecialChars(str) {
const specialCharsSet = new Set("!##$%^&*()_");
for (let letter of str) {
if (specialCharsSet.has(letter)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
You can try this:
regex = [\W_]
It will definitely help you.

i want that the first two characters of my string should not be special characters

I want that the first two characters of my string should not be special characters
function detectInvalidChars(limitField)
{
var len=limitField.value.length;
var char1=limitField.value.substring(0,1);
var char2=limitField.value.substring(1,2);
if(char1=='&'||char1=='<' char1=='!' || char2=='&'||char2=='<'..........so on)
{
alert("Invalid character");
limitField.value = limitField.value.substring(0,len-1);
}
}
instead of matching the char1 and char2 with each special character. What can I do?
You can use a regular expression:
var re = /^([&<!]|.[&<!])/;
if (re.test(limitField.value)) {
alert...
}
look into the string method .charCodeAt(n)
you should be able to then compare the ascii values in ranges.
so for example if you want to exclude control charactercs you could write something like
if (mystring.charCodeAt(0)<32 || mystring.charCodeAt(1)<32) {
alert("Invalid character");
}
or use a regex.
You may find this question helpful:
isalpha replacement for JavaScript?
You can use regex for that on a substring of the original.
substring gets the part of the string from "from" to "to".
/^[0-9a-z]+$/ is regex that allows only 0 ... 9 and a ... z
function is_part_alnum(value, from, to)
substring = value.substring(from, to);
if(!substring.match(/^[0-9a-z]+$/) {
alert("Invalid character(s)");
}
}
If you don't want to use regex and want to define your own set of special characters, you could use a function like this:
function detectInvalidChars(s, count) {
var specialChars = "!##$%^&*()+=-[]\\\';,./{}|\":<>?~_";
var firstChars = s.substr(0, count).split('');
for(var i=0; i<firstChars.length; i++) {
if(specialChars.indexOf(firstChars[i]) !== -1) {
// invalid char detected
}
}
}
Where s is your string and count is the number of the first characters that should be investigated.

javascript code to check special characters

I have JavaScript code to check if special characters are in a string. The code works fine in Firefox, but not in Chrome. In Chrome, even if the string does not contain special characters, it says it contains special characters.
var iChars = "~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>?";
for (var i = 0; i < chkfile.value.length; i++)
{
if (iChars.indexOf(chkfile.value.charAt(i)) != -1)
{
alert ("File name has special characters ~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>? \nThese are not allowed\n");
return false;
}
}
Suppose I want to upload a file desktop.zip from any Linux/Windows machine.
The value of chkfile.value is desktop.zip in Firefox, but in Chrome the value of chkfile.value is c://fakepath/desktop.zip. How do I get rid of c://fakepath/ from chkfile.value?
You can test a string using this regular expression:
function isValid(str){
return !/[~`!#$%\^&*+=\-\[\]\\';,/{}|\\":<>\?]/g.test(str);
}
Try This one.
function containsSpecialCharacters(str){
var regex = /[ !##$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]/g;
return regex.test(str);
}
Directly from the w3schools website:
var str = "The best things in life are free";
var patt = new RegExp("e");
var res = patt.test(str);
To combine their example with a regular expression, you could do the following:
function checkUserName() {
var username = document.getElementsByName("username").value;
var pattern = new RegExp(/[~`!#$%\^&*+=\-\[\]\\';,/{}|\\":<>\?]/); //unacceptable chars
if (pattern.test(username)) {
alert("Please only use standard alphanumerics");
return false;
}
return true; //good user input
}
Did you write return true somewhere? You should have written it, otherwise function returns nothing and program may think that it's false, too.
function isValid(str) {
var iChars = "~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>?";
for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
if (iChars.indexOf(str.charAt(i)) != -1) {
alert ("File name has special characters ~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>? \nThese are not allowed\n");
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
I tried this in my chrome console and it worked well.
You could also do it this way.
specialRegex = /[^A-Z a-z0-9]/
specialRegex.test('test!') // evaluates to true
Because if its not a capital letter, lowercase letter, number, or space, it could only be a special character
If you don't want to include any special character, then try this much simple way for checking special characters using RegExp \W Metacharacter.
var iChars = "~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>?";
if(!(iChars.match(/\W/g)) == "") {
alert ("File name has special characters ~`!#$%^&*+=-[]\\\';,/{}|\":<>? \nThese are not allowed\n");
return false;
}

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