Sorry, that's "Match 1 character *NOT *a-z, followed by any character zero
or more times."

try "^[^a-z]+$"


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Dan Dumont <ddum...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is checking the entire length of the string...   your pattern is not
> doing what you want.
>
> I suggest you read up on regular expressions.   Your regexp says:
> Match 1 character a-z, followed by any character zero or more times.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Josh <joshdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> i have the following code in place to ensure that the user only enters
>> the letters a through z into the EditText control.
>>
>> if (Pattern.matches("[^a-z].*", DrawingName.getText().toString())) {
>>     //do nothing for now
>>    DrawingName.setText("WRONG");
>> }
>>
>> The problem is it only checks the first character. How can I make it
>> check the entire length of the string?                                  }
>> >>
>>
>

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