I am building a RegEx that is almost complete, but I can not get it to check for digits (0 - 9): So for example: Jones-Parry is valid but Jones-Parry1 is not. The regex at present looks like this:
^([\\w\\s,'\\-ÀÈÌÒÙàèìòùÁÉÍÓÚÝáéíóúýÂÊÎÔÛâêîôûÃÑÕãñõÄËÏÖÜŸäëïöüŸçÇŒœßØøÅåÆæÞþÐð]){0,80}$
I have tried using \d and [0-9] but to no avail. All else is working with the regex aside from the numbers. It validates special characters etc.
Any pointers greatly appreciated!
The problem is \w expands to A-Za-z0-9_, which includes digits 0-9. This explains why strings with digit pass your test.
You may want to specify A-Za-z_ directly instead of \w in your regex. It will fix your problem.
As georg has pointed out in the comment, your regex is very weak, since aside from the length requirement, it only checks whether it does not contain any character outside your allowed character set. A string with only spaces, or a string with only punctuation would pass the test.
Anyway, I doubt validating name is a good idea in general. Many assumptions programmers make about name are wrong. Depending on your requirement, you can give user a field for display name, where user can type anything in, and another field for username, where you only allow a strict set of characters.
[...]{80} is especially bad for validation, because it also "validates" ---, ,,,, and similar kinds of stuff.