Check if a String contains a special character

This is tested in android 7.0 up to android 10.0 and it works

Use this code to check if string contains special character and numbers:

  name = firstname.getText().toString(); //name is the variable that holds the string value

  Pattern special= Pattern.compile("[^a-z0-9 ]", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
  Pattern number = Pattern.compile("[0-9]", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
  Matcher matcher = special.matcher(name);
  Matcher matcherNumber = number.matcher(name);

  boolean constainsSymbols = matcher.find();
  boolean containsNumber = matcherNumber.find();

  if(constainsSymbols == true){
   //string contains special symbol/character
  }
  else if(containsNumber == true){
   //string contains numbers
  }
  else{
   //string doesn't contain special characters or numbers
  }

Convert the string into char array with all the letters in lower case:

char c[] = str.toLowerCase().toCharArray();

Then you can use Character.isLetterOrDigit(c[index]) to find out which index has special characters.

Use java.util.regex.Pattern class's static method matches(regex, String obj)
regex : characters in lower and upper case & digits between 0-9
String obj : String object you want to check either it contain special character or not.

It returns boolean value true if only contain characters and numbers, otherwise returns boolean value false

Example.

String isin = "12GBIU34RT12";<br>
if(Pattern.matches("[a-zA-Z0-9]+", isin)<br>{<br>
   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;System.out.println("Valid isin");<br>
}else{<br>
   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;System.out.println("Invalid isin");<br>
}