Answers for "regex test for special characters"

regex to check if string contains special characters javascript

var format = /[ `!@#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?~]/;
//            ^                                       ^   
document.write(format.test("My@string-with(some%text)") + "<br/>");    //true
document.write(format.test("My string with spaces") + "<br/>");        //true 
document.write(format.test("MyStringContainingNoSpecialChars"));       //false

regex match numbers and special characters

echo %H1E2L+L#O! | sed 's/[^A-Z!]//g'	#replaces number and special
characters which aren't ! or an uppercase letter A-Z