How to regex match entire string instead of a single character

Question

I am trying to implement \"alpha\" validation on Arabic alphabet characters input, using the JavaScript regex /[\\u0600-\\u06FF]/ as instructed in this post. I want

Answer 1

You need to add ^ and $ anchors to the regular expression, as well as a + to allow multiple characters.

Try this:

/^[\u0600-\u06FF]+$/

I'm not sure if "Arabic spaces" that you mentioned are included in the character range there, but if you want to allow white space in the string then just add a \s inside the [] brackets.