Regex for allowing character, numbers and - in javascript

Question

I have a textbox where I want user to only input values like below example

I-MH-NGPR-UBR-0001

It means, a user can add only numbers, alphabets and -. Other than this it should not allow user to enter anything.

How to do this in javascript

@Abhishekgurjar - Can't use \w, because it matches on underscores. — nnnnnn
– nnnnnn, Commented Apr 4, 2017 at 5:48

Mustofa Rizwan · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-04 05:41:10Z

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You can try this:

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

Demo

const regex = /^[a-zA-Z0-9-]+$/m;
const str = `I-MH-NGPR-UBR-0001`;
if (str.match(regex))
  console.log("matched");
else
   console.log("not matched");

answered Apr 4, 2017 at 5:41

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schaturv · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-04 05:55:42Z

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Try this on your HTML itself no need of javascript also.

<input type="text" name="myTextBox" pattern="^[a-zA-Z0-9-]+$" title="Please enter only alphabets numbers or -">

answered Apr 4, 2017 at 5:55

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