^[A-Z]+[a-zA-Z]*$ I think.  I am doing this without testing it so check it
out.  The ^ means first position of a work the next must be between A-Z and
then 1 to many recurrences of all letters.  This means that Travis matches
but D. for a middle initial won't

 

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Hello,

how can I use regex to match all words starting with only capital
alphanumeric characters? Like "\w+", but the first character of the
word should only be a capital letter.

Helge



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