title: Regular Expression to restrict special characters
body: <p>i have an address field in my form and i want to restrict <br/><code>* | \ " : &lt; &gt; [ ] { }  \ ( ) '' ; @ &amp; $</code> <br/>
  i have tried with <br/></p>
  
  <pre><code>var nospecial=/^[^* | \ " : &lt; &gt; [ ] { } ` \ ( ) '' ; @ &amp; $]+$/;
              if(address.match(nospecial)){
                  alert('Special characters like * | \ " : &lt; &gt; [ ] { } ` \ ( ) \'\' ; @ &amp; $ are not allowed');
                  return false;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it is not working. Please tell me what i missed? </p>