How to validate if a string would be a valid java variable?

Question

How can I best check if a string input would be a valid java variable for coding? I\'m sure I\'m not the first one who is willing to do this. But maybe I\'m missing the righ

Answer 1

Just use the built-in isName method:

public static boolean isName(CharSequence name)

This returns whether or not a name is a syntactically valid qualified name in the latest source version.

See the isName() documentation.