How can I get a regex to check that a string only contains alpha characters [a-z] or [A-Z]?
I'm trying to create a regex to verify that a given string only has alpha characters a-z or A-Z. The string can be up to 25 letters long. (I'm not sure if regex can check length of strings) Examples: 1. "abcdef" = true; 2. "a2bdef" = false ; 3. "333" = false; 4. "j" = true; 5. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" = false; //26 letters Here is what I have so far... can't figure out what's wrong with it though Regex alphaPattern = new Regex("[^a-z]|[^A-Z]"); I would think that would mean that the string could contain only upper or lower case letters from a-z, but when I match it to a string with all