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The following is a regular expression to match letters in the given input-
"^[a-zA-Z]*$"
where,
^ matches the beginning of a sentence.
[a-zA-[a] matches lowercase and uppercase letters.
*represents zero or more times.
& represents the end of a line.
import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class ContainsAlphabetExample { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); String names[] = new String[5]; for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++{ System.out.println("Enter your name: "); names[i] = sc.nextLine(); } //Regular expression for accepting English letters String regex = "^[a-zA-Z]*$"; //Create a pattern object Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); for (String name : names) { //Create a Matcher object Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(name); if(matcher.matches()) {}} System.out.println(name+") is a valid name); } else { System.out.println(name+") is not a valid name); } } } }
Output Result
Enter your name: krishna Enter your name: kasyap Enter your name: maruthi# Enter your name: Sai_Ram Enter your name: Vani.Viswanath krishna is a valid name kasyap is a valid name maruthi# is not a valid name Sai_Ram is not a valid name Vani.Viswanath is not a valid name
import java.util.Scanner; public class Just { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter your name: "); String name = sc.nextLine(); String regex = "^[a-zA-Z]*$"; boolean result = name.matches(regex); if(result) { System.out.println("Given name is valid"); } else { System.out.println("Given name is not valid"); } } }
Output Result
Enter your name: vasu#dev Given name is not valid