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Aryeh M. Friedman - 29 Oct 2007 08:58 GMT

I know if I just looked a little harder (been at it for an hour) I am
sure to find this:

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

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Haran Pilpel - 29 Oct 2007 09:03 GMT

> How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
> characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

[A-Z]* should work.

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Lew - 29 Oct 2007 14:12 GMT

>> How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
>> characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)
>
> [A-Z]* should work.

But only for certain locales.

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Christopher Benson-Manica - 29 Oct 2007 20:57 GMT

>> How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
>> characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

> [A-Z]* should work.

Depends on whether the empty string is desired to be part of the
result set.

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Sherman Pendley - 30 Oct 2007 01:57 GMT

>> How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
>> characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)
>
> [A-Z]* should work.

This should work better, and match non-ASCII letters:

\p{Lu}+

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Lew - 29 Oct 2007 14:18 GMT

> I know if I just looked a little harder (been at it for an hour) I am
> sure to find this:
>
> How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
> characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

I'm surprised that
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html>
didn't show up very early in your hour.

\p{Lu}

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Roedy Green - 29 Oct 2007 15:12 GMT

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:58:57 -0000, "Aryeh M. Friedman"
<Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
>characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html
A-Z

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