Regex pattern including all special characters

Question

I want to write a simple regular expression to check if in given string exist any special character. My regex works but I don\'t know why it also includes all numbers, so wh

Answer 1

You have a dash in the middle of the character class, which will mean a character range. Put the dash at the end of the class like so:

[$&+,:;=?@#|'<>.^*()%!-]