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For some reason, people cannot write apostrophes without resulting with an error... For example: Prud'homme will not work

Here's my line of code:

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-zé.¸UûÙùàÀèÈéÉïÏîÎôÔêÊçÇ .,\'-]+$/";

I don't understand why it doesn't work, does someone know?

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I don't know everything about regexps, but a dot should be escaped, or it will be treated as "any character". A dot matches any charachter if it is not escaped properly.

Same goes for the comma and dash, backslash and ', in other words, all characters that have a function within a regexp. They should all be escaped properly. [A-Z] means A to Z, while [A\-Z] means A, - and Z.

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So how should I change my code in order for this to work? I'm kind of a google learner so I don't fully understand it yet

Thank you for helping buddy I really need it!

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$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-zé\.¸UûÙùàÀèÈéÉïÏîÎôÔêÊçÇ \,\\\'\-]+$/";

Although I'm not sure if all those special characters will work. Never tried it, so I'm not certain.

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IT WORKS !!! Thank you so much for you help, you just made my entire day!

Thanks again buddy!

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Hehe you're welcome :).

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