laravel regex validation not working

Question

I've just started using laravel and I'm working on validating a textarea in one of my forms.

The textarea is for the users bio and so I only want to allow letters, numbers, spaces and the following characters: , . ? ; : ' " - () ! / @ $

This is what I have

$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),
array('bio' => array('regex:[a-zA-Z0-9 ,\.\?;:\'"-\(\)!/@\$]')
    )
);

I've been searching and trying a lot to get it to work but I just can't figure it out.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Solution

Try this:

array('Regex:/^[A-Za-z0-9\-! ,\'\"\/@\.:\(\)]+$/')