string.match only looking at first character

[Stealthy Serval]

Hey all, so I'm wanting to look at the string from a characters name and ensure that all characters are A-Z (no numbers or special characters)

But unfortunately I can only get it to look at the first character of the string.

if not string.find(fName, "^%a") or not string.find(lName,"^%a")then
    if isTimer(cTimer)then killTimer(cTimer) end
    guiSetText(createChar.errorLab,"Invalid characters. (A-Z only)")
    cTimer = setTimer(fadeError,3000,1)
	return
end

I've switched between string.find() and string.match() to try them both, and I've also switched the code from if not to if and else, but still not luck.

[Stealthy Serval]

I was able to fix this problem by adding "+$" to the end of the string.find() calls.

if not string.find(fName, "^%a+$") or not string.find(lName,"^%a+$")then
    if isTimer(cTimer)then killTimer(cTimer) end
    guiSetText(createChar.errorLab,"Invalid characters. (A-Z only)")
    cTimer = setTimer(fadeError,3000,1)
	return
end

I'm not sure if this is the most effective way or not, but it fixed it!

Edited December 5, 2018 by Stealthy Serval