Regex to allow A-Z, - and '

Question

I am trying to get this Regex to work to validate a Name field to only allow A-Z, \' and -.

So far I am using this which is working fine apart from it wont allow an

Answer 1

Your code already does what you want it to:

... prints:

Valid: Jim
Valid: John
Valid: O'Toole
Valid: one-two
Valid: Daniel'Blackmore
Invalid:  Jim
Invalid: abc123
Invalid: $@#$%@#$%&*(*&){}//;;

The single quote does not have any special meaning in regular expressions so it needs no special treatment. The minus sign (-), when inside [], means range; if you need a literal - it has to be the first or last character, as in your code.

Said that, the error (if any) is somewhere else.