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? } >> >> > > > > -- 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---