JavaScript Regex for first character alphabet only, second and onwards can be alphanumeric or special characters (hyphen, comma and whitespace)

Question

I need help in regex where first character alphabet only, second and onwards can be alphanumeric or special characters (hyphen, comma and whitespace).

I tried below its is not working.

^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9 -,]+$

Answer 1

You were almost there, simply escape - in the second character set, like so:

^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9 \-,]+$

Otherwise, as pointed out by @Sweeper in the comments, -, would match any character between and , .

See explanation .