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EditText field accept only letters and white spaces in Android

Anonymous User 10337 19-Oct-2014
I have an EditText field in my project which stands for the full name of the person.So I want only letters and spaces to be allowed in it.So I tried the following in the XML file

android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ "

But it didn't work.Can anyone tell me how to do it?
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Updated on 19-Oct-2014
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Anonymous User

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19-Oct-2014
use regex.. pattern should be

Full_Name_Pattern = "[A-Z][a-z]+( [A-Z][a-z]+)*";
Anonymous User

Anonymous User

19-Oct-2014
Try this:

EditText yourEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
yourEditText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {
    new InputFilter() {
        @Override
        public CharSequence filter(CharSequence cs, int start,
                    int end, Spanned spanned, int dStart, int dEnd) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if(cs.equals("")){ // for backspace
                 return cs;
            }
            if(cs.toString().matches("[a-zA-Z ]+")){
                 return cs;
            }
            return "";
        }
    }
});

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