I’m working on Laravel 5.8. I’m trying to use Validator to validate a name field with regex, here is my rule below:
But as soon as I call the rule to be validated an error is thrown, see below:
preg_match(): No ending delimiter ‘/’ found
Solution
Since regex has a pipe in it, So, we have to use an array:
From the docs: http://laravel.com/docs/5.8/validation#rule-regex
That’s All.
Thanks for Reading.
Keep Coding.
Adding automated validation tests for edge cases would make this fix more maintainable, especially when regex rules evolve during future Laravel updates.