Javascript regular expression password validation having special characters

Question

I am trying to validate the password using regular expression. The password is getting updated if we have all the characters as alphabets. Where am i going wrong ? is the re

Answer 1

I use the following script for min 8 letter password, with at least a symbol, upper and lower case letters and a number

function checkPassword(str)
{
    var re = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[!@#$%^&*])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{8,}$/;
    return re.test(str);
}