Regex including all special characters except space-CodePudding

I have a regex which checks all the special characters except space but that looks weird and too long.

const specialCharsRegex = new RegExp(/@|#|\$|!|%|&|\^|\*|-|\ |_|=|{|}|\[|\]|\(|\)|~|`|\.|\?|\<|\>|,|\/|:|;|"|'|\\/).

This looks too long and if i use regex (\W) it also includes the space.
Is there is any way i can achieve this?

CodePudding user response：

Well you could use:

[^\w ]

This matches non word characters except for space. You may blacklist anything else you also might want by adding it to the above character class.

CodePudding user response：

To match anything that is not a word character nor a whitespace character (cr, lf, ff, space, tab)

const specialCharsRegex = new RegExp(/[^\w\s] |_ /, 'g');

See this demo at regex101 or a JS replace demo at tio.run (used g flag for all occurrences)

The underscore belongs to word characters [A-Za-z0-9_] and needs to be matched separately.

CodePudding user response：

Try this using a-A-0-9/a-z/A-Z

Pattern regex = Pattern.compile("[^A-Za-z0-9]");