Syntax Error in Regular Expression

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I want to validate the Alphanumeric with some special Characters(/and -). I wrote the Following expression. But it come Syntax error .
This is My Expression :

/^[a-zA-Z0-9/-]+$/

Posted 5-Jul-13 23:09pm

sangeethamanikandan

Updated 6-Jul-13 13:33pm

Mike Meinz

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Mike Meinz · Answer 1 · 2013-07-06T13:15:00

Solution 1

This may help you: txt2re - Regular Expression Generator[^] and Regular Expression Test Tool[^]

Try this for your regular expression:

/^[a-zA-Z0-9-\/]+$/

I put the escape character \ in front of the /

Posted 6-Jul-13 13:15pm

Mike Meinz

Updated 6-Jul-13 13:33pm

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Anshu Krishna · Answer 2 · 2013-07-06T16:03:00

Solution 2

For matching text like:
asd-sda9009
AsDs-243-325

JavaScript

/^[a-z0-9\-]+$/i

Posted 6-Jul-13 16:03pm

Anshu Krishna