RegExp with [space] allowed?

[monkeytooth]

I am tempting to filter my form inputs with jquery. I am currently playing with RegExp. But I am noticing I am limiting myself a bit. Some of the fields like the Address Fields for example need the ability to have a space between things. example: "123 MyStreet Rd."

 

However from my poking around I can't come across a regexp format that will allow things like . and [space], nor can i think of one on my own. Needless to say I am a bit stuck. Is anyone able to help me on this?

 

RegExp('[^a-zA-Z]+', 'g');
val = val.replace(pattern, '');

 

var pattern = new RegExp('[^0-9a-zA-Z]+', 'g');
val = val.replace(pattern, '');

 

Above are the 2 things I am using right now. One to allow strickly alphabetic input and one to allow a combination of alpha and numeric. But how to add a space or a period or a comma in the expression I don't know. I am lost, any help would cool.

 

[monkeytooth]

http://www.lousyllama.com/blog/jquery-autotab-11-beta-ready-testing#comment-288

 

is the script I am working with. I am attempting to use its "Custom" filter while attempting to build my own regexp to verify if a street address is good or not

 

I have spent several hours prior to this original post and after trying various ways of putting a regexp together for this and have failed each time. I am no good with this regexp stuff. Can anybody help me with this, I can't move on in my project til i solve this cause I have OCD, and its beyond me.

 

I just want a means to handle "123 Some St." that can also accept the following with or without the dot, with or without a hyphen, with or without a #, with or without a comma, with a space.

 

anyone able to help me out here? please? I can't be stuck on this for days and days. This is most likely something simple to anyone who knows regexp better than I.

[salathe]

In simple terms you can extend the character class ([…]) with the extra characters that you want to allow, for example [^0-9a-zA-Z.#, -]+

 

If you need stricter checking (the above would allow #.......,,,----### as a valid address) do let us know more precisely what you're willing to allow/deny.

[monkeytooth]

Allow: . , - # 0-9 a-z A-Z [spacebar]

Deny: anything that's not above