[thelist] numeric only regex? [ and one more perhaps?]

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 3 08:32:10 CDT 2005


--- "Kowalkowski, Lee (ASPIRE)" <lee.kowalkowski at hmrcaspire.com> wrote:

> I couldn't see a check for non-alphabetic characters in your sample.
> 
> Using regex: 
> 
> if(!/^[a-z]{3}[a-z]*[*]?$/i.test(nametext.value))
> {
> 	// error.
> }
> 
> ... assuming the wildcard must be at the end.  Can the wildcard be anywhere,
> even at the start?

Hmm, hadn't thought about it, but I would say it would be best to allow that if it was not too
hard. User tend to do strange things ;)


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