laravel regex validation not working

Question

I've just started using laravel and I'm working on validating a textarea in one of my forms.

The textarea is for the users bio and so I only want to allow letters, numbers, spaces and the following characters: , . ? ; : ' " - () ! / @ $

This is what I have

$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),
array('bio' => array('regex:[a-zA-Z0-9 ,\.\?;:\'"-\(\)!/@\$]')
    )
);

I've been searching and trying a lot to get it to work but I just can't figure it out.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Don't know how it works in laravel, but you may need (a) delimiters (b) anchoring from start ^ to finish $, and (c) probably a + (1 character or more...). — Wrikken
– Wrikken, Commented Mar 15, 2014 at 22:36
Most of the things you are escaping don't need escaping inside of []. Also - specifies a range when it's inside of [] — pguardiario
– pguardiario, Commented Mar 16, 2014 at 2:26

user3094403 · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-21 15:14:54Z

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Try this:

array('Regex:/^[A-Za-z0-9\-! ,\'\"\/@\.:\(\)]+$/')

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answered May 21, 2014 at 14:53

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Thank you for the improvements ProgramFOX!

How can I put this regex in the laravel validation rule ^(\-?\d+(\.\d+)?),\s*(\-?\d+(\.\d+)?)$