Regex to Match Symbols: !$%^&*()_+|~-=`{}[]:";'<>?,./

Question

I\'m trying to create a Regex test in JavaScript that will test a string to contain any of these characters:

!$%^&am         


        

Answer 1

A simple way to achieve this is the negative set [^\w\s]. This essentially catches:

• Anything that is not an alphanumeric character (letters and numbers)
• Anything that is not a space, tab, or line break (collectively referred to as whitespace)

For some reason [\W\S] does not work the same way, it doesn't do any filtering. A comment by Zael on one of the answers provides something of an explanation.