Hi,

I am new to the league. I have been assigned Lime survey quite recently and I have hit a snag while validating text questions.
I want my text questions to accept ONLY textual response . Right now if I enter 123 in "Name of respondent" field it gets accepted. I want it to take text only.
Please help me on this. I'm afraid if the question sounds childish.
I have done my desk research already.
This is my first ever post to any forum, please help.

Cheers!

OK! I have found the solution already.

When you post your solution here, you also help other people that encounter the same problem as you had.... So please share here what solution you used.

I have used ([A-Z]{1}[a-z]*) to validate my text fields. Later on, however, I noticed that respondents can skip this through A12345[starting with alphabet and then switching to numeric). Ideally the validation should not allow the numeric expression AT ALL.

Done so much desk research but no luck so far.

Since this is my fist ever post to any forum so I didn't know the protocols. I have posted the same question in many open discussions. I was then being told that this is off-topic and I need to initiate a new string.So did I,this morning when I escaped my own perfect logic i.e.([A-Z]{1}[a-z]*) I have started another string with the similar question(not realizing my previous string is still open) and now my post has been locked and I am being told that I need to close this string first.

Sounds mess, anyways never mind the real question remains ;How to validate text fields?????

Any clues??

A confused member!

This regex will prevent any numeric characters. All others will be allowed.

Great! you saved my day @tpartner.

This is working, but i also want to prevent capital letters. Can I do that?

This should also prevent upper-case characters - anything between the square braces after the caret will be disallowed:

Amazing! Just what I was looking for.