letters, one comma and one space

[crackpanda]

As the subject implies, i need a regex for letters, one comma, and one space, does anyone know the solution?

 

Thank you for your time,

[silkfire]

^A-Za-z ,$

[crackpanda]

I also now need one for: letters, spaces, and one comma

 

I'm still trying to learn how to form these patterns..

[joe92]

Could you give an example of input and desired output? What silkfire has given will match the literal string 'A-Za-z ,'. I'm guessing for your first question you were looking to match something more like 'said, '?

 

In which case you will need to alter the pattern to look like:

/[A-Za-z]+, /

 

Placing the A-Z in the square brackets makes it a character class and will search for letters A to Z. Not inside the square brackets is just looking for the literal string 'A-Z', not the required result right? Also, you will not want the ^ sign at the beginning and the $ sign at the end. That will mean that the regex has to match from the beginning (^) till the end ($) of the input string. Again I'm presuming as you didn't provide an example with your question, but it sounds like you are looking for a match in a large section of text?

 

Hope this helps,

Joe

[crackpanda]

Thanks for helping Joe, that code was close, it still lets in numbers in something like this "abc, 123, abc".

 

I need letters, spaces, and one comma.

 

So something like "toronto, ontario" would work.

[joe92]

Can you be a bit more specific please. Are you trying to validate the data to make sure no numbers are passed through? An example input and desired output would be very helpful.

[crackpanda]

I'm starting a new topic because i need something different now.

[crackpanda]

I need a regex for letters, spaces, and a comma:

 

"toronto, ontario" == true

"abc, 123, abc" == false

"asd. #!@" == false

 

Does anyone know how to form the pattern for this?

[ManiacDan]

/^[a-z ,]+$/i

[ManiacDan]

Given that you had another thread where you asked this exact same question and then said you wanted something different, how about you explain what you mean?

[crackpanda]

That worked

 

If you look carefully the previous thread asked for a single space. I need to not limit the spaces in my case.

 

Thank you for the expression, epic.

[ManiacDan]

That was the exact same expression silkfire gave in your other thread, except silkfire forgot the square brackets.