Can you give us a sample input and output that is failing? I'd like to see the exact regex and test string(s) you are using.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Josh Dobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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? >>>> } >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Faber Fedor >> Cloud Computing New Jersey >> http://cloudcomputingnj.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
