RegEx for Javascript to allow only alphanumeric

Question

I need to find a reg ex that only allows alphanumeric. So far, everyone I try only works if the string is alphanumeric, meaning contains both a letter and a number. I just w

Answer 1

Even better than Gayan Dissanayake pointed out.

/^[-\w\s]+$/

Now ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$ can be represented as ^\w+$

You may want to use \s instead of space. Note that \s takes care of whitespace and not only one space character.