String validation

[anand01]

Hi all,
How could we validate that given string should only contains alphabetic characters,
pls share some ideas,
thanks in advance

[JamesCherrill]

1. use the String matches(Regex) method with a regular expression for whatever you consider to be a letter in whatever languages you need to support.
2. check each char in the String one at a time using Character's isLetter(char) method which knows about non-english characters.

[zeroliken]

check the regex Pattern class and experiment with the constructs and matches method

[anand01]

thanks for the replies