Regex Help

[Mary Cole]

Hi,
I want to validate a String so that it can start and end with alphanumeric characters, but can contain only space, comma or dash anywhere else. Can I get the regex for this validation please?

Thanks in advance

[Rahul Sudip Bose]

Is this what you were looking for ?

enter the string !

qwerty---  , -a32    --- ,    wr4   q12

Now enter the pattern to be searched in this string !
[a-zA-Z0-9]+[\s,-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+

pos 0 result qwerty---  , -a32
pos 30 result wr4   q12

hth

[Mary Cole]

Rahul, thanks for your reply. The \s doesn't seem to work. Also it should allow single quote anywhere in hte string except at the start and end of the string.

The regex gives error if I enter "Aabc,12312-4555"

[a-zA-Z0-9]+[,-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+

FYI, am using Java to validate this