Test if string contains only letters (a-z + é ü ö ê å ø etc..)

Question

I want to match a string to make sure it contains only letters.

I\'ve got this and it works just fine:

var onlyLetters = /^[a-zA-Z]*$/.test(myString)         


        

Answer 1

There are some shortcuts to achive this in other regular expression dialects - see this page. But I don't believe there are any standardised ones in JavaScript - certainly not that would be supported by all browsers.