I know this question is asked more often here on Stack, but I can't seem to get a straight answer out of the questions already posted.
I need to check if all special characters (except -) are in a string, if so, then give the user an alert.
What I have so far is this:
if($('#Search').val().indexOf('@') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('#') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('$') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('%') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('^') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('&') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('*') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('(') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf(')') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('_') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('\'') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('\"') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('\\') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('|') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('?') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('/') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf(':') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf(';') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('!') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('~') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('`') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf(',') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('.') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('<') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('>') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('{') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('}') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('[') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf(']') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('+') == -1 || $('#Search').val().indexOf('=') == -1)
{
// Code that needs to execute when none of the above is in the string
}
else
{
alert('Your search string contains illegal characters.');
}
But this doesn't seem to work... Can anyone help me on this matter?
Thanks in advance!
Guido