SOLVED: Possible? edit restricted username spacers

[brenwa]

located in user registration settings I would like to edit the spacers allowed in the setting below

DEFAULT:
Limit username chars:
Restrict type of characters that may be used in usernames, spacers are: space, -, +, _, [ and ].

I would like to limit it to just a dash - and underscore _

I realize I might have to get into the database, but Im hoping its somewhere in the language or other easy to edit file

Thank you for your help

[Brf]

includes/functions_user.php on lines 1772 and 1780 you should be able to edit the regex to remove characters you do not want.

[brenwa]

thank you that is very helpful (I am not familiar enough with this to know exactly what to remove)

to edit this:

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case 'USERNAME_LETTER_NUM_SPACERS':
			$regex = '[-\]_+ [\p{Lu}\p{Ll}\p{N}]+';

to limit the spacers to only - and _

what would I remove from

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$regex = '[-\]_+ [\p{Lu}\p{Ll}\p{N}]+';

thank you

[Brf]

Try

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$regex = '[-_\p{Lu}\p{Ll}\p{N}]+';

[brenwa]

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$regex = '[-_\p{Lu}\p{Ll}\p{N}]+';

that worked great thank you

one last question
where would I edit the text displaying under username: on the registration form

and use alphanumeric, space or -+_[] characters.

I need to remove space + and []

thank you

[Brf]

All of the text you see is in the language files. In this case they are in /language/en/ucp.php:

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	'USERNAME_ALPHA_ONLY_EXPLAIN'	=> 'Username must be between %1$s and %2$s long and use only alphanumeric characters.',
	'USERNAME_ALPHA_SPACERS_EXPLAIN'=> 'Username must be between %1$s and %2$s long and use alphanumeric, space or -+_[] characters.',
	'USERNAME_ASCII_EXPLAIN'		=> 'Username must be between %1$s and %2$s long and use only ASCII characters, so no special symbols.',
	'USERNAME_LETTER_NUM_EXPLAIN'	=> 'Username must be between %1$s and %2$s long and use only letter or number characters.',
	'USERNAME_LETTER_NUM_SPACERS_EXPLAIN'=> 'Username must be between %1$s and %2$s long and use letter, number, space or -+_[] characters.',

[brenwa]

thank you for all the help