Help in PHP Regx

Question

Using PHP Regx, I need to make the user input arabic,english,digits and the following characters(_ and - and space)

user can input string as the following:

10-abc 10-من 10-abcمن _abcمن-10

and so on.

Advice me please.

Answer 1

the right expression for english, digits and _ and - is ... [a-zA-Z0-9_-]* (the little trailing minus makes me a little nervous, but it seems to work) ... now you will have to put arabic charaters in there as well (hopefully, this works as a character range, as with english) ... can't help you on that, since i don't know any arab ...

good luck ... ;)

Answer 2

To check for Arabic characters you can use

\p{InArabic}

This page might help you on your way.