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Allow all characters and spaces restrictions regex javasctipt

I found this regex which acomplishes the following:
^(\w+\s)*(\w+$)
no space at beginning
no space at end
no double or more consecutive spaces in between
But I also need to allow any character and currently it only accepts alphanumeric values.
How do I write this?

Replace \w (which matches [a-zA-Z0-9_]) with \S (not a whitespace character, as mentioned in the comments. Should be equivalent to [^\s] but if there is a shorthand, better use it), making ^(\S+\s)*(\S+$).
Note that this matches everything that is not matched by \s, also any weird unicode symbols or the likes.
This is a token answer as there seem to be no answers after my comment and OP noted that marking as resolved cannot be done on comments.

Ignore newlines in a regex that doesn't care about order

I have a regex here at scriptular.com
/(?=.*net)(?=.*income)(?=.*total)(?=.*depreciation)/i
How do I make the regex successfully match the string?
Without the newline characters in the string, the regex would succeed. I could remove them... but I'd rather not.

1.) The dot matches any character besides newline. It won't skip over newlines if the desired words would match in lines after the first one. In many regex flavors there is the dotall or single line s-flag available for making the dot also match newlines but unfortunately not in JS Regex.
Workarounds are to use a character class that contains any character. Such as [\s\S] any whitespace character \s together with any non whitespace \S or [\w\W] for any word character together with any non word character or even [^] for not nothing instead of the dot.
2.) Anchor the lookaheads to ^ start of string as it's not wanted to repeat the lookaheads at any position in the string. This will drastically improve performance.
3.) Use lazy matching for being satisfied with first match of each word.
/^(?=[\s\S]*?net)(?=[\s\S]*?income)(?=[\s\S]*?total)(?=[\s\S]*?depreciation)/i
See demo at regex101 (dunno why this doesn't work in your demo tool)
Additionally you can use \b word boundaries around the words for making sure such as net won't be matched in brunet, network... so the regex becomes ^(?=[\s\S]*?\bnet\b)...

JavaScript regular expressions to match no digits, whitespace and selected symbols

Thanks for taking a look.
My goal is to come up with a regexp that will match input that contains no digits, whitespace or the symbols !#£$%^&*()+= or any other symbol I may choose.
I am however struggling to grasp precisely how regular expressions work.
I started out with the simple pattern /\D/, which from my understanding will match the first non-digit character it can find. This would match the string 'James' which is correct but also 'James1' which I don't want.
So, my understanding is that if I want to ensure that a pattern is not found anywhere in a given string, I use the ^ and $ characters, as in /^\D$/. Now because this will only match a single character that is not a digit, I needed to use + to specify that 1 or more digits should not be founds in the entire string, giving me the expression /^\D+$/. Brilliant, it no longer matches 'James1'.
Question 1
Is my reasoning up to this point correct?
The next requirement was to ensure no whitespace is in the given string. \s will match a single whitespace and [^\s] will match the first non-whitespace character. So, from my understanding I just had to add this to what I have already to match strings that contain no digits and no whitespace. Again, because [^\s] will only match a single non-white space character, I used + to match one or more whitespace characters, giving the new regexp of /^\D+[^\s]+$/.
This is where I got lost, as the expression now matches 'James1' or even 'James Smith25'. What? Massively confused at this point.
Question 2
Why is /^\D+[^\s]+$/ matching strings that contain spaces?
Question 3
How would I go about writing the regular expression I'm trying to solve?
While I am keen to solve the problem I am more interested in figuring where my understanding of regular expressions is lacking, so any explanations would be helpful.

Not quite; ^ and $ are actually "anchors" - they mean "start" and "end", it's actually a little more complicated, but you can consider them to mean the start and end of a line for now - look up the various modifiers on regular expressions if you're interested in learning more about this. Unfortunately ^ has an overloaded meaning; if used inside square brackets it means "not", which is the meaning you are already acquainted with. It's very important that you understand the difference between these two meanings and that the definition in your head actually applies only to character range matching!
Contributing further to your confusion is that \d means "a numerical digit" and \D means "not a numerical digit". Similarly \s means "a whitespace (space/tab/newline/etc.) character" and \S means "not a whitespace character."
It's worth noting that \d is effectively a shortcut for [0-9] (note that - has a special meaning inside square brackets), and \D is a shortcut for [^0-9].
The reason it's matching strings that contain spaces is that you've asked for "1+ non-numerical digits followed by 1+ non-space characters" - so it'll match lots of strings! I think that perhaps you don't understand that regular expressions match bits of strings, you're not adding constraints as you go, but rather building up bots of matchers that will match bits of corresponding strings.
/^[^\d\s!#£$%^&*()+=]+$/ is the answer you're looking for - I'd look at it like this:
i. [] - match a range of characters
ii. []+ - match one or more of that range of characters
iii. [^\d\s]+ - match one or more characters that do not match \d (numerical digit) or \s (whitespace)
iv. [^\d\s!#£$%^&*()+=]+ - here's a bunch of other characters I don't want you to match
v. ^[^\d\s!#£$%^&*()+=]+$ - now there are anchors applied, so this matcher has to apply to the whole line otherwise it fails to match
A useful website to explore regexs is http://regexr.com/3b9h7 - which I supply with my suggested solution as an example. Edit: Pruthvi Raj's link to debuggerx is awesome!

Is my reasoning up to this point correct?
Almost. /\D/ matches any character other than a digit, but not just the first one (if you use g option).
and [^\s] will match the first non-whitespace character
Almost, [^\s] will match any non-whitespace character, not just the first one (if you use g option).
/^\D+[^\s]+$/ matching strings that contain spaces?
Yes, it does, because \D matches a space (space is not a digit).
Why is /^\D+[^\s]+$/ matching strings that contain spaces?
Because \D+ in /^\D+[^\s]+$/can match spaces.
Conclusion:
Use
^[^\d\s!#£$%^&*()+=]+$
It will match strings that have no digits and spaces, and the symbols you do not allow.
Mind that to match a literal -, ] or [ with a character class, you either need to escape them, or use at the start or end of the expression. To play it safe, escape them.

Just insert every character you don't want to include in a negated character class as follows:
^[^\s\d!#£$%^&*()+=]*$
DEMO
Debuggex Demo
^ - start of the string
[^...] - matches one character that is not in `...`
\s - matches a whitespace (space, newline,tab)
\d - matches a digit from 0 to 9
* - a quantifier that repeats immediately preceeding element by 0 or more times
so the regex matches any string that has
1. string that has a beginning
2. containing 0 or more number of characters that is not whitesapce, digit, and all the symbols included in the character class ( In this example !#£$%^&*()+=) i.e., characters that are not included in the character class `[...]`
3.that has ending
NOTE:
If the symbols you don't want it to have also includes - , a hyphen, don't put it in between some other characters because it is a metacharacter in character class, put it at last of character class

RegExp to match hashtag at the begining of the string or after a space

I have looked through previous questions and answers, however they do not solve the following:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask#notHashTag
The closest I got to is this: (^#|(?:\s)#)(\w+), which finds the hashtag in half the necessary cases and also includes the leading space in the returned text. Here are all the cases that need to be matched:
#hashtag
a #hashtag
a #hashtag world
cool.#hashtag
##hashtag, but only until the comma and starting at second hash
#hashtag#hashtag two separate matches
And these should be skipped:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask#notHashTag
Word#notHashTag
#ab is too short to be a hashtag, 3 characters minimum

This should work for everything but #hashtag#duplicates, and because JS doesn't support lookbehind, that's probably not possible to match that by itself.
\B#\w{3,}
\B is designed to match only between two word characters or two non-word characters. Since # is a non-word character, this forces the match to be preceded by a space or punctuation, or the beginning of the string.

Try this regex:
(?:^|[\s.])(#+\w{3,})(#+\w{3,})?
Online Demo: http://regex101.com/r/kG1nD5

Javascript regex - no white space at beginning + allow space in the middle

I would like to have a regex which matches the string with NO whitespace(s) at the beginning. But the string containing whitespace(s) in the middle CAN match. So far i have tried below
[^-\s][a-zA-Z0-9-_\\s]+$
Debuggex Demo
Above is not allowing whitespace(s) at the beginning, but also not allowing in the middle/end of the string. Please help me.

In your 2nd character class, \\s will match \ and s, and not \s. Thus it doesn't matches a whitespace. You should use just \s there. Also, move the hyphen towards the end, else it will create unintentional range in character class:
^[^-\s][a-zA-Z0-9_\s-]+$

If you plan to match a string of any length (even an empty string) that matches your pattern and does not start with a whitespace, use (?!\s) right after ^:
/^(?!\s)[a-zA-Z0-9_\s-]*$/
^^^^^^
Or, bearing in mind that [A-Za-z0-9_] in JS regex is equal to \w:
/^(?!\s)[\w\s-]*$/
The (?!\s) is a negative lookahead that matches a location in string that is not immediately followed with a whitespace (matched with the \s pattern).
If you want to add more "forbidden" chars at the string start (it looks like you also disallow -) keep using the [\s-] character class in the lookahead:
/^(?![\s-])[\w\s-]*$/
To match at least 1 character, replace * with +:
/^(?![\s-])[\w\s-]+$/
See the regex demo. JS demo:
console.log(/^(?![\s-])[\w\s-]+$/.test("abc def 123 ___ -loc- "));
console.log(/^(?![\s-])[\w\s-]+$/.test(" abc def 123 ___ -loc- "));

You need to use this regex:
^[^-\s][\w\s-]+$
Use start anchor ^
No need to double escape \s
Also important is to use hyphen as the first OR last character in the character class.
\w is same as [a-zA-Z0-9_]

use \S at the beginning
^\S+[a-zA-Z0-9-_\\s]+$

This RegEx will allow neither white-space at the beginning nor at the end of. Your string/word and allows all the special characters.
^[^\s].+[^\s]$
This Regex also works Fine
^[^\s]+(\s+[^\s]+)*$

try this should work
[a-zA-Z0-9_]+.*$

/^[^.\s]/
try this instead it will not allow a user to enter character at first place
^ matches position just before the first character of the string
. matches a single character. Does not matter what character it is, except newline
\s is space

If your field for user name only accept letters and middle of space but not for begining and end
User name: /^[^\s][a-zA-Z\s]+[^\s]$/
If your field for user ID only accept letters,numbers and underscore and no spaces allow
user ID: /^[\w]+$/
If your field for password only accept letters,number and special character no spaces allow
Password: /^[\w##&]+$/
Note: \w content a-zA-Z, number, underscore (_) if you add more character, add you special character after \w.
You can compare with user ID and password field in password field im only add some special character (##&).
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I suggest below regex for this,
^[^\s].*[^\s]$
You can try regex in here