How to check first character of a string if a letter, any letter in C#

I want to take a string and check the first character for being a letter, upper or lower doesn’t matter, but it shouldn’t be special, a space, a line break, anything. How can I achieve this in C#?

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Method 1

Try the following

string str = ...;
bool isLetter = !String.IsNullOrEmpty(str) && Char.IsLetter(str[0]);

Method 2

Try the following

bool isValid = char.IsLetter(name.FirstOrDefault());

Method 3

return (myString[0] >= 'A' && myString[0] <= 'Z') || (myString[0] >= 'a' && myString[0] <= 'z')

Method 4

You should look up the ASCII table, a table which systematically maps characters to integer values. All lower-case characters are sequential (97-122), as are all upper-case characters (65-90). Knowing this, you do not even have to cast to the int values, just check if the first char of the string is within one of those two ranges (inclusive).

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