java regex for alpha and spaces is including [ ] \
- by JayAvon
This is my regex for my JTextField to not be longer than x characters and to not include anything other than letters or spaces. For some reason it is allowing [ ] and \ characters. This is driving me crazy. Is my regex wrong??
package com.jayavon.game.helper;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.PlainDocument;
public class CharacterNameCreationDocument extends PlainDocument {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private int limit;
public CharacterNameCreationDocument(int limit) {
super();
this.limit = limit;
}
public void insertString(int offset, String str, AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {
if (str == null || (getLength() + str.length()) > limit || !str.matches("[a-zA-z\\s]*")){
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
return;
} else {
super.insertString(offset, str, attr);
}
}
}
