On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Dan Dumont <[email protected]> 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.
No it doesn't. It says match 1 character which is anyhing OTHER than a-z
followed by zero or more of any other character.
What the OP presumably wants is something like
^[a-z]+
which reads as "match the start of line, followed by one or more of the
characters 'a' through 'z'"
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Josh <[email protected]> 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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