ISSUE #5206 - Silence codeQL warnings #5227
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This fixes #5206
Description
The regex for allowing letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores in front end validation used overlapping superfluous tokens. For instance
\w
includes alphanumeric characters and underscores, so there is no need to use\w|_
Test cases
Ensure that the validation of the affected inputs is unchanged