I've been trying for a while now to simply (or not so simply) construct a regex to deny any characters others than lowercase letters, hyphens, and spaces. Simple, no? NO! I've tried every combination I could think of including making to match statments, one to try to match the lowercase letters, hypens, and spaces, and one to match all the characters I didn't want. Here are some of my desperate attempts:

/[a-z]+(?:[a-z\s-] *)/ (current)
/[a-z]+[-\s]*/
/[-\s(a-z)+]*/

but obviously none of them have worked. Any suggestions?

P.S. Thanks jwest for giving me the first one.

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