Check to see if a String contains words only?

Hiya all

I wanna check if a variable value is words only or not.
So if I had

so test should only be allowed to be something like "hello" and not something like "123". If "123" appears I want it to tell me.

Such as if i wanna check if the value is an interger I would do Interger.parseInt(String test). If test = 123 then it would be ok but if test = "hello" if would throw an exception.
[ April 09, 2005: Message edited by: Jamie Cotton ]

Such as if i wanna check if the value is an interger I would do Interger.parseInt(String test). If test = 123 then it would be ok but if test = "hello" if would throw an exception.

Jamie,
Try:

String test = " ";
test = String.parseString(test);

I tried that but still no luck

Originally posted by Jamie Cotton:
I tried that but still no luck

Not surprising, considering there is no such method!

There's no method in the API which will tell you directly whether a String is a "word" because word-ness is a subjective concept. On the other hand, testing for integer-ness is straightforward.

The first thing you need to do is to state your problem clearly. Are you interested in a JTextField which allows you to type only alphabetic characters? That's doable. Are you interested in telling whether a String contains any digits? That's doable, too. But you have to think clearly about exactly what you want to do, and so far, you haven't made a precise statement of what that is.

Sorry I am interested in a JTextField which allows you to type only alphabetic characters.

OK, that's easy. Use a JFormattedTextField, which lets you specify the format for legal data entries. See Here for a tutorial on using this class, including demo code.

or you could experiment with regular expressions