only alpha and only numeric regex issue

Question

I have the following regex in Java:

private static final String ALPHA_REGEX = "[^A-Za-z]+$";

If I input say "a334234234" the validation will fail. However if I input "a3423423fsfsdf" the validation succeeds...

Same goes for the following regex which checks whether the input is numeric only:

private final static    Pattern NUMBER_ONLY_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("[^0-9 ]+$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);

If I input 4saasd the validation fails, but if I input 3dfsdf22 the validation is successful. Can you help me with this?

mmmmmm · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-14 12:44:45Z

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^ in [] mean not, but without [] it means beginning of string, this is your issue

^[a-zA-Z]+$ - only letter

^\d+$ - only digit

mmmmmm

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answered Jul 14, 2012 at 12:19

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