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SexyMF
SexyMF

Reputation: 11155

how to prevent non-English characters and allow non-alpha characters

I have a string, and I want to make sure that every letter in it is English. The other characters, I don't care.

  1. 34556#%42%$23$%^*&sdfsfr - valid
  2. 34556#%42%$23$%^*&בלה בלה - not valid

Can I do that with Linq? RegEx?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2574

Answers (3)

stema
stema

Reputation: 92986

You can define in a character class either all characters/character ranges/Unicode-properties/blocks you want to allow or you don't want to allow.

[abc] is a character class that allows a and b and c

[^abc] is a negated character class that matches everything but not a or b or c

Here in your case I would go this way, no need to define every character:

^[\P{L}A-Za-z]*$

Match from the start to the end of the string everything that is not a letter [^\p{L}] or A-Za-z.

\p{L} Is a Unicode property and matches everything that has the property letter. \P{L} is the negated version, everything that is not a letter.

Test code:

string[] StrInputNumber = { "34556#%42%$23$%^*&sdfsfr", "asdf!\"§$%&/()=?*+~#'", "34556#%42%$23$%^*&בלה בלה", "öäü!\"§$%&/()=?*+~#'" };
Regex ASCIILettersOnly = new Regex(@"^[\P{L}A-Za-z]*$");
foreach (String item in StrInputNumber) {

    if (ASCIILettersOnly.IsMatch(item)) {
        Console.WriteLine(item + " ==> Contains only ASCII letters");
    }
    else {
        Console.WriteLine(item + " ==> Contains non ASCII letters");

    }
}

Some more basic regex explanations: What absolutely every Programmer should know about regular expressions

Upvotes: 4

Jeppe Stig Nielsen
Jeppe Stig Nielsen

Reputation: 61952

Maybe you could use

using System.Linq;

...

static bool IsValid(string str)
{
  return str.All(c => c <= sbyte.MaxValue);
}

This considers all ASCII chars to be "valid" (even control characters). But punctuation and other special characters outside ASCII are not "valid". If str is null, an exception is thrown.

Upvotes: 3

Pranay Rana
Pranay Rana

Reputation: 176906

One thing you can try is put the char you want in this regx 

bool IsValid(string input) {     
  return !(Regex.IsMatch(@"[^A-Za-z0-9'\.&@:?!()$#^]", input)); 
}

char other than specfied in the regx string are get ignored i.e return false..

Upvotes: 1

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