regular expression allowing only english alphanumeric and "-"

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I need a regular expression that allows english alphabets and numbers and "-" and not allow every thing else. but recently I found out that my regular expression not stopping french language alphabets and numbers

My regular expression is as follow,

@"[^\w\d-]";

How can I change the above regular expression so only english alphabets, numbers and "-" can be allowed only?

Try this A-Za-z And I think you need the - as a - to be first — paparazzo, Dec 22 '14 at 12:59

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '14 at 12:54

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How can I change the above regular expression so only english alphabets, numbers and "-" can be allowed only?

@"^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$"

^ asserts that we are at the start. $ Asserts that we are at the end. + repeats the previous token one or more times.

answered Dec 22 '14 at 12:54

Avinash Raj

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