I've got this RegEx which is used to validate what the user enters
It must be a value 8 - 16 characters long and can contain ONE of the certain special characters.
/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[:;#~]).{8,16}$"
I'm not trying to show an alert if the user enters something that doesn't match the above. So a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and :;#~ are allowed but anything else shows an alert.
So Abcd1234# is OK, but if they enter Abcd1234!$ if will show the alert as ! & $ are not in the match.
I've tried adding ^ to the start of character match to try and negate them, but that didn't work.
What's the best way to do this?