javascript - Regular Expression to match first and last character -

javascript - Regular Expression to match first and last character -

i'm new using regular expressions , trying utilize regex check first , lastly characters in string alpha characters between a-z.

i know matches first character:

/^[a-z]/i

but how check lastly character well? this:

/^[a-z][a-z]$/i

does not work. , suspect there should in between 2 clauses don't know what!

any help much appreciated.

the below regex match strings starts , ends alpha character.

/^[a-z].*[a-z]$/igm

demo

explanation:

^ # represents begining of line. [a-z] # alphabatic character. .* # character 0 or more times. [a-z] # alphabatic character. $ # end of line. # case-insensitive match. g # global. m # multiline

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