Java String – See if a string contains only numbers and not letters

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I have a string that I load throughout my application, and it changes from numbers to letters and such. I have a simple if statement to see if it contains letters or numbers but, something isn’t quite working correctly. Here is a snippet.

String text = "abc"; 
String number; 

if (text.contains("[a-zA-Z]+") == false && text.length() > 2) {
    number = text; 
}

Although the text variable does contain letters, the condition returns as true. The and && should eval as both conditions having to be true in order to process the number = text;

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Solution:

I was able to solve this by using this following code provided by a comment on this question. All other post are valid as well!

What I used that worked came from the first comment. Although all the example codes provided seems to be valid as well!

String text = "abc"; 
String number; 

if (Pattern.matches("[a-zA-Z]+", text) == false && text.length() > 2) {
    number = text; 
}

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