What regex can I use to match only letters, numbers, and one space between each word?

Question

How can I create a regex expression that will match only letters and numbers, and one space between each word?

Good Examples:

Answer 1

(?:[a-zA-Z0-9]+[ ])+[a-zA-Z0-9]+

If I understand you correctly the above regex should work. See screenshot below:

screenshot http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6871/screenshotkiki056.png

Answer 2

This would match a word

'[a-zA-Z0-9]+\ ?'

Answer 3

^([a-zA-Z0-9]+\s?)*$

its works

Answer 4

Most regex implementations support named character classes:

^[[:alnum:]]+( [[:alnum:]]+)*$

You could be clever though a little less clear and simplify this to:

^([[:alnum:]]+ ?)*$

FYI, the second one allows a spurious space character at the end of the string. If you don't want that stick with the first regex.

Also as other posters said, if [[:alnum:]] doesn't work for you then you can use [A-Za-z0-9] instead.

Answer 5

([a-zA-Z0-9]+ ?)+?

Answer 6

^[a-zA-Z]+([\s][a-zA-Z]+)*$