Allow only selected charcters based on regex in an EditText

Question

I want to allow users only to type certain characters based on the a regex in my android applications. How do I achieve it?

Accepted Answer

Used a `TextWatcher` as @Matt Ball suggested.

```
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
      String text = s.toString();
      int length = text.length();

if(length > 0 && !Pattern.matches(PATTERN, text)) {
           s.delete(length - 1, length);
      }
}
```

Edit Although the `TextWatcher` works, it would be cleaner to use an `InputFilter`. Check this example.

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