Regex: letters dot and space only

[hassimkhan]

Hello expert,

have an input field which should accept only letters, '.' and space (see image below). here is my code so far.

FIND FIRST OCCURRENCE OF REGEX '[^a-zA-Z]*' IN makt-maktx.

   IF sy-subrc = 0.

     MESSAGE e012.

   ENDIF.

makt-maktx is the field on screen.

Help please

[Former Member]

Hi Hassim

Try this '^[a-zA-Z ,]*$'.

regards,

Archer

[former_member201275]

I don't understand your question, the code you have does what you ask so where is the issue?

[former_member195402]

Hi Glen,

the REGEX doesn't fit the requirement.

Regards,

Klaus

[former_member201275]

Ok. I don't understand regex so well, was just trying to find out exactly why. As they only want to allow letters '.' and space, and the code pasted returns subrc = 0, so i assumed it was fine.

Hopefully i will learn something from this post.

[former_member195402]

Hi Hassim,

please try this:

'^[a-zA-Z/s/.]+[/s]*$'

or

'^[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z/s/.]+[/s]*$'

Regards,

Klaus

[Former Member]

space is /s, i forgot this.

[Former Member]

space is also space.

Replace your FIND statement with this.

FIND REGEX '[^a-zA-Z \.]' IN makt-maktx.

In regex, dot matches any character, and to match actual dot, you need to escape it using backslash.