Issue with Laravel Rules & Regex (OR) operator

Question

I\'m having a small issue with my Laravel rules and regex operation :

Basically a rule is an array as such :

\'room\'=>\'required|alpha_num|min:2|         


        

Answer 1

You should use an array instead of separating rules using |:

'cid' => array('required', 'regex:/^((comp)|(soen)|(engr)|(elec))\d{3}$/i')

The pipe (|) sigh is available in your regular expression pattern so it's conflicting with the separator. Other answer already stated it.