RegEx to make sure that the string contains at least one lower case char, upper case char, digit and symbol
If you need one single regex, try:
(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\W)
A short explanation:
(?=.*[a-z]) // use positive look ahead to see if at least one lower case letter exists
(?=.*[A-Z]) // use positive look ahead to see if at least one upper case letter exists
(?=.*\d) // use positive look ahead to see if at least one digit exists
(?=.*\W]) // use positive look ahead to see if at least one non-word character exists
And I agree with SilentGhost, \W
might be a bit broad. I'd replace it with a character set like this: [-+_!@#$%^&*.,?]
(feel free to add more of course!)
Bart Kiers, your regex has a couple issues. The best way to do that is this:
(.*[a-z].*) // For lower cases
(.*[A-Z].*) // For upper cases
(.*\d.*) // For digits
In this way you are searching no matter if at the beginning, at the end or at the middle. In your have I have a lot of troubles with complex passwords.
You can match those three groups separately, and make sure that they all present. Also, [^\w]
seems a bit too broad, but if that's what you want you might want to replace it with \W
.