How do I match French and Russian Cyrillic alphabet characters with a regular expression? I only want to do the alpha characters, no numbers or special characters. Right now I have
[A-Za-z]
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To match only Russian Cyrillic characters use:
[\u0401\u0451\u0410-\u044f]
which is the equivalent of:
[ЁёА-я]
where А is Cyrillic, not Latin. (Despite looking the same they have different codes)
\p{IsCyrillic}, \p{Cyrillic}, [\u0400-\u04FF] which others suggested will match all variants of Cyrillic, not only Russian
If you use Elixir:
String.match?(string, ~r/^\p{Cyrillic}*$/u)
You need to add the u flag for unicode support.
For modern PHP (source):
$string = 'тест тест Тест Обязателльно Stackoverflow >!<';
var_dump(preg_replace('/[\x{0410}-\x{042F}]+.*[\x{0410}-\x{042F}]+/iu', '', $string));
In Java to match Cyrillic letters and space use the following pattern
^[\p{InCyrillic}\s]+$
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