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POHard time figuring out the correct regex to match uppercase words
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copied!<p>I have a simple requirement. We use the hibernate validation engine to figure out if a constraint is true or false.</p> <p>True should be a text if all the words starts with an uppercase character. There are some difficulties:</p> <p>Words could also start like this <pre> 8-Test or even 8Test or even (Test) or even -Test or anything comparable </pre> Also usually they are comma separated (or a different separator):<pre> Test, Test, Test </pre> <b>Remember I only want to make sure that words in the String starts uppercase. When you see my tries, probably I am overcomplicating things. </b></p> <p>Here are some samples: Expected to match all (true):<pre> - Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde, Benzyl - Test, Test, Test - CI 15510, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Disodium EDTA - N/A - NA</pre> Expected to not match all (false):<pre> - hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde, Benzyl - Test, test, Test - CI 15510, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Disodium eDTA - na - n/a</pre> My tries were going into this directions:<pre> <code> final String oldregex = "([\\W]*\\b[A-Z\\d]\\w+\\b[\\W]*)+"; final String regex = "([A-Z][\\d\\w]+( [A-Z][-\\d\\w]+)*, )*[A-Z][-\\d\\w]+( [A-Z][-\\d\\w]+)*\\.";'</code></pre> actually with "<b>oldregex</b>" option I ran into an infinitive calculation for some texts Use this to test regex: <a href="http://gskinner.com/RegExr/" rel="nofollow">http://gskinner.com/RegExr/</a> (without double backslashes of course)</p> <p>Thanks for helping!!!</p>

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