Java: removing numeric values from string

Question

I have suceeded with the help of this community in removing numeric values from user input, however, my code below will only retrieve the alpha characters before the numeric

Answer 1

Your regex:

[^A-Z]

matches anything which is not an uppercase letter.

Which means any lowercase letter will match too.

You should probably use:

[^A-Za-z]

as a regex instead.

Note also that this will not account for anything other than ASCII. It may, or may not, be what you want.