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

That's because your pattern contains a .-^ which is all characters between and including . and ^, which included digits and several other characters as shown below:

If by special characters, you mean punctuation and symbols use:

[\p{P}\p{S}]

which contains all unicode punctuation and symbols.