Validating variables in shells script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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    Can you help me to validate a variable only for string and digit. That is

variable should either fully alphabets or digits.

Please send me result to my mail id also: REMOVED

Thanx in advance

Regards
Deepak Xavier

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