Regex To Check If A String Starts And Ends With An Alphabetic Character

A Regular Expression to validate and match a string that starts and ends with an alphabetic character.

/^[a-z].*[a-z]$/igm

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Matches:

• abcd
• regex pattern
• regexpattern

Non-matches:

• Regexpattern1
• 2Regexpattern

See Also:

• Regular Expression To Match Consecutive Alphabetic Characters
• Alphanumeric Regular Expression

Expression Flags

Flags	Description
i	Ignore case sensitive.
g	Allows global search.
m	Allows multiline search.