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Content Validation - How to exclude special characters in Text entry questions

  • March 31, 2021
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Anna_Verges
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I am preparing a survey where the user will type the surname - text question.
I want to make sure that characters such as accents, apostrophes, umlauts are not accepted.
I cannot see, under content validation options, a way to exclude special characters
Am I missing something? Has anyone who had similar requirement found a way to do the above in Qualtrics?
Many thanks 🙂
Anna

Best answer by TomG

You can do it with a regex that only allows A through Z and few other characters.
^[a-zA-Z '.-]+$

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  • March 31, 2021

You can do it with a regex that only allows A through Z and few other characters.
^[a-zA-Z '.-]+$

Anna_Verges
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Thank you Tom

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