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Regular expression confusion...

I don't understand how to construct the following regex:

I need to match a word that is made of up alphas and ends with an optional
',' character.

For example:

ValidWord
ValidWord,
NotValid7
Not7Valid
NotValid7,

I thought that [a-zA-Z]+,? would work but it doesn't, it matches the
"NotValid" part of "NotValid7" (the seven should disqualify that sequence of
characters...

What am I missing!?

Thanks,
TJ

Nov 16 '05 #1
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ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vsintro7/html/vxgrfRegularExp
ressionsS.htm
[a-zA-Z]+,?>
Nov 16 '05 #2

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