How to determine if a String has non-alphanumeric characters?

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Using Apache Commons Lang:

!StringUtils.isAlphanumeric(String)

Alternativly iterate over String’s characters and check with:

!Character.isLetterOrDigit(char)

You’ve still one problem left:
Your example string “abcdefà” is alphanumeric, since à is a letter. But I think you want it to be considered non-alphanumeric, right?!

So you may want to use regular expression instead:

String s = "abcdefà";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[^a-zA-Z0-9]");
boolean hasSpecialChar = p.matcher(s).find();

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