That doesnt work either. what i want to do is check the entire length of the
string to ensure that only a-z are in the string and that there are no
special characters.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Faber Fedor <faberfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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 <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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