javascript regex for special characters

Question

I\'m trying to create a validation for a password field which allows only the a-zA-Z0-9 characters and .!@#$%^&*()_+-=

I can\'t seem to

Answer 1

a sleaker way to match special chars:

/\W|_/g

\W Matches any character that is not a word character (alphanumeric & underscore).

Underscore is considered a special character so add boolean to either match a special character or _