Validate City and State with Java Regular Expressions

In order to match the city and state using regular expression, we use the matches method in Java. The java.lang.String.matches() method returns a boolean value which depends on the matching of the String with the regular expression.

Declaration − The java.lang.String.matches() method is declared as follows −

Example

 Live Demo

public class Example {
   public static void main( String[] args ) {
      System.out.println(city("Mumbai"));
      System.out.println(state("Goa"));
   }
   // validating the city
   public static boolean city( String c ) {
      return c.matches( "([a - zA - Z] + |[a - zA - Z] + \s[a - zA - Z] + )" );
   }
   // validating the state
   public static boolean state( String st ) {
      return st.matches( "([a - zA - Z] + |[a - zA - Z] + \s[a - zA - Z] + )" ) ;
   }
}

Output

false
false