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Laravel 5.6 - Validate Numbers and spaces

In Laravel 5.6 I am validating alphabetic characters and spaces only in regex like this..

'name' => 'required|regex:/^[pLs-]+$/u',


This works as far as I can see, I am now trying to validate numbers only and spaces like this..

'telephone' => 'required|regex:/[0-9 ]+/',


But this is not working and allows me to enter 'f4' where it should fail.

Where am I going wrong?

'regex:/(^[0-9 ]+$)+/'

1 Answer
1

[0-9 ]+ will match 4 in f4

[0-9 ]+

4

f4

Try using anchors to assert the start and the end of the line ^ and $

^

$

^[0-9 ]+$

^[0-9 ]+$

Note that this will also match whitespaces only because the character class matches digit or a whitespace one or more times..

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