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

From what I see. Following Regex should work fine:

if (preg_match("/^[A-Z\'\-]+$/",$firstname)) {
    // do something
}

Here I have escaped both apostrophe and dash. I have tested this in an online Regex tester and works just fine.

Give it a try