Reg expression question

Question

Why does when parsing the string
"(*&^Max's)()(#" using the regex
"[a-zA-z]+(.*)[a-zA-z]+"the result is "^Max's" instead of "Max's" I understand that ^ is a regex special character, but do not see why it pops up.

Answer 1

@OP. You get that output because you have an error in
your pattern, you should use a-zA-Z and not
a-zA-z
That is, the pattern should be:
"[a-zA-Z]+(.*)[a-zA-Z]+"Kajor "\\p{Alpha}+(.*)\\p{Alpha}+"But I'm a little suspicious of that ".*" int middle. I assume since you're searching for alphas on both sides of it, that for the .* you want "anything except alpha." If that's the case, it becomes "\\p{Alpha}+(\\P{Alpha}*)\\p{Alpha}+"