Regular Expressions 101

^start of string

Character Class[a-zäöüß \-]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case insensitive)

äthe literal ä (228₁₀ / 344₈ / E4₁₆) (case insensitive)

öthe literal ö (246₁₀ / 366₈ / F6₁₆) (case insensitive)

üthe literal ü (252₁₀ / 374₈ / FC₁₆) (case insensitive)

ßthe literal ß (223₁₀ / 337₈ / DF₁₆) (case insensitive)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

$end of string, or before its final line terminator

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

u modifier: unicode. Treats the pattern and subject as UTF-16

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Regular Expression

^[a-zäöüß \-]+$

Anna-Maria Müller