really dumb question

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

I know if I just looked a little harder (been at it for an hour) I am
sure to find this:

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

 

[Haran Pilpel]

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

[A-Z]* should work.

 

[Lew]

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

[A-Z]* should work.

But only for certain locales.

 

[Lew]

I know if I just looked a little harder (been at it for an hour) I am
sure to find this:

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

I'm surprised that
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html>
didn't show up very early in your hour.

\p{Lu}

 

[Roedy Green]

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html
A-Z

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

[A-Z]* should work.

Depends on whether the empty string is desired to be part of the
result set.

 

[Sherman Pendley]

How do I match (using regex's) contains nothing but uppercase
characters (no non -alpha, numbers, whitespace, etc.)

[A-Z]* should work.

This should work better, and match non-ASCII letters:

\p{Lu}+

sherm--