Looking for someone to make a regexp for me

[billygoatkaraoke]

Hi

I'm happy to pay someone that can write me a regexp that does the following.

Allows:
' - single quotes
& - ampersands
- single space

any letters or digits in any language eg acompáñame

It has to fit into the filter_var I have below, which returns true if a match on an illegal character is found (the regexp I have in there isn't working how I want):

if(filter_var($myWords, FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP, array("options"=>array("regexp"=>"/^[' &\p{L}\p{Nd}]*$/"))) === false) return true;

I will need to test it to make sure it works for what I need, and will need you to rework the regexp if it doesn't.

Payment would be via Paypal.

Thanks guys

[ejsexton82]

It might be easier to create a regex by filtering illegal characters. A regex like this should allow any character except for exclamation marks (!) and question marks (?):

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$regex = '/^[^!\\?]*$/';


The ^ symbol inside of the [] brackets negates the character set, so that it matches any character except the ones listed.