title: Regex for Any English ASCII Character Including Special Characters
body: <p>I want to write a regex in php to match only any english characters, spaces, numbers and all special chars.</p>
  
  <p>From this question
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3203190/regex-any-ascii-character">Regex any ascii character</a></p>
  
  <p>I tried this </p>
  
  <pre><code>preg_match("/[\x00-\x7F]+/", $str);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it throws a warning</p>
  
  <pre><code>No ending delimiter '/' found 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so, how to write this regex in php.</p>
  
  <p>the alternative would be smth like [a-z\d\s] and also one by one consider all special chars, but is not there a way to do simpler ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>