in reply to Re: regex: only want [a-zA-Z] and comma chars in a string
in thread regex: only want [a-zA-Z] and comma chars in a string

Ahhh ... the pitfalls of coding to the test cases instead of the specification. The OP specifically stated that he needed the characters to be in the class [a-zA-Z], which your code doesn't check for. Try the following string "1", which should fail.

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