How to allow any character in RegEx? -

current use following regex user enter password

^\w{8,16}$

now understand, \w allows a-z, a-z, 0-9 , _ character. want allow character length between 8 , 16. how doing it? thanx lot in advance :)

firstly, use word count need rather regex.

if must, .{8,16} should work, . matches single char, no matter is.

edit: preempt next question surely be, password validation regular expression, might want check out of these blogs:

or 'password validation stackoverflow' on google

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