Regular Expression To Match Consecutive Alphabetic Characters

A Regular Expression to match two or more consecutive alphabetic characters in a string.

/[a-zA-Z]{2,}/g

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Explain:

• [] Character set. Match any character in the set.
  • a-z Range. Matches a character in the range “a” to “z”. Case sensitive.
  • A-Z Range. Matches a character in the range “A” to “Z”. Case sensitive.
• {2,} Quantifier. Match 2 or more of the preceding token.

Matches:

• ab
• abcd

Non-matches:

• a
• a b
• a1
• 123

See Also:

• Regular Expression To Match Duplicate Words