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find the word without number
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:10 pm
by Gurzi
hello, im learning regex but i have one doubt at this moment..
i have one string with two words.
tiago87
tiago
and i want to find the word without numbers
i thougt that the pattern was
[^a-z0-9]
Where i am wrong ?
can you tell me the right way ?
thanks
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:23 pm
by aaronhall
I believe /^[a-zA-Z]+$/ will only match strings without numbers or special characters
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:30 pm
by Gurzi
yes , you are right.
But i want to learn to use the ^(negation of)
If anyone know , please help..
Thanks
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:49 pm
by nickvd
Well, this ([^a-z0-9]) is saying, match everything except the characters a-z and 0-9.
You want everything except for numbers, correct?
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:54 pm
by Gurzi
nickvd wrote:Well, this ([^a-z0-9]) is saying, match everything except the characters a-z and 0-9.
You want everything except for numbers, correct?
+- , i want the word without numbers..
i have tiago and tiago87, i want to retrieve tiago
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:57 pm
by Benjamin
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:14 am
by stereofrog
or
both match strings that don't contain any numbers. The second one is locale-aware.