Regular Expression Except this Characters

Question

I am using MVC data annotations and my requirement is that the address field can contain any characters (i.e. other than English characters are also allowed) except < > . ! @ # % / ? *.

I searched many sites but not getting how to write this regex.

So far I have tried:

[Required(ErrorMessage = "Address Required.")]
[RegularExpression(@"^[<>.!@#%/]+$", ErrorMessage = "Address invalid.")]
public string Address { get; set; }

Answer 1

Make your regex choose from any characters except the ones listed with the caret:

[^abc] 

will match anything that's not an a, b, or c.

So putting it all together, your regex would be

^[^<>!@#%/?*]+$

Note here that the caret outside the square braces means 'match the start of the line', yet inside the square brackets means 'match anything that is not any of the following'

Answer 2

Try is regular expression:

[^<>.!@#%/?*]

Answer 3

Currently, you are only allowing string consisting ONLY of these letters.

Use

"^[^<>.!@#%/]+$"

Answer 4

This should do the work:

"[^<>.!@#%/]"

EDIT:

. (dot) is a reserved character in Regular Expressions, so you need to escape it.