I would like to check if the first character of a string is a letter or not. My regular expression is:
'/^([a-zA-Z.*])$/'
This is not working. What’s wrong with it?
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I would like to check if the first character of a string is a letter or not. My regular expression is:
'/^([a-zA-Z.*])$/'
This is not working. What’s wrong with it?
Try the following:
which checks if the first letter is in the alphabet and allows any character after that.