Regular expression for laravel route

Question

I want to make a regular expression for this laravel route.

Route::get('/{id}', 'HomeController@profile')

So far I was able to accept number only and string only using ->where('id', '\w+'); and )->where('id', '\d+');

But, I would like to make the rule so it accepts strings from 0-9, hyphen - and any string from A-Z or a-z

How can I do this. I haven't done any regex before.

Chirag Bhatia - chirag64 · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-27 19:38:35Z

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The regex you're looking for is: [0-9A-Za-z\-]+

answered Apr 27, 2014 at 19:38

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Nope. It didn't work. Route::get('/{id}', 'HomeController@profile')->where('id', '[0-9A-Za-z\-]');

Try adding the + character in the end.

It seems to work. I will accept it in 5 minutes. One more question, what rule would I need to make it so, that it does not start with - ?

Try this: [0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z\-]*