Regex: How do I match only when a string is not entirely numeric?

Question

Hi,
I'm using java regular expression pattern matching. I want to receive a successful pattern-match ONLY when a string is NOT comprised entirely of numeric digits [0-9].
So, for example, when pattern-matching on the following 3 strings,
"abcdef" would return match = true and
"abc123" would return match = true and
"123456" would return match = falseI have tried using the regex pattern [^0-9] but this only seems to work for strings that are one character long. The pattern [^0-9]+ didn't work either.
What I need is the equivalent pattern to [^\d+] (which is an invalid pattern).
Please note that I have to solve this one using regular expressions, even though it would be trivial to solve using straight java code!
Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

What I need is the equivalent pattern to
[^\d+] (which is an invalid pattern).Well as its an invalid pattern, how exactly do you expect us to know what you mean by it?!?
Based on your textual description of what you want, and on the basis that you seem not to want to negate theopposite, how's this (I assume we're talking core Java regex's?):
myString.matches(".*[^\\d].*");