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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Regular Expression - Validate only alphabets

Here is the simple program to validate the digits

private static void onlyAlphabets () {
    //Only Alphabets
    String expression = "^[a-zA-Z]+$";
    String str1 = "It is a string"; //It will match.
    String str2 = "2dF1"; //It wont match.
    String str3 = "a33345345"; //It wont match.
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(expression);

    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(str1);

    boolean found = false;
    if (matcher.find()) {
        System.out.println (str1 + " - contains only alphabets");
        found = true;
    }
    if(!found){
        System.out.println(str1 + " - contains other than alphabets");
    }
}