Regular Expressions - Restrict Possible Usernames

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Hi everyone, could some explain please why this regex isn’t satisfactory?
It passes all tests except these two:

BadUs3rnam3 (matches but shouldn’t)
Z97 (matches but shouldn’t)

I would seem that, this is because my regex allows somehow numbers to be inserted in the middle of the string, but shouldn’t my regex prevent exactly this with the phrase
[a-z]+
?

Why is it allowing non-letters in the middle?

Thanks!

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let username = "JackOfAllTrades";
// let userCheck = /^[a-z][a-z]+[\w]*$/i; 
let result = userCheck.test(username);

//\w - only alphanumeric
//\d*$  OR ^[^0-9]
//i

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not sure why does it match z97
it matches ’ BadUs3rnam3’ because of ‘\w’ according to w3school
"The \w metacharacter matches word characters.

A word character is a character a-z, A-Z, 0-9, including _ (underscore)."

try to use () read:

so in the case ‘Jo’ will match but not ‘Z97’

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