[thelist] js for zip code validation
Howard Cheng
howcheng at ix.netcom.com
Mon Dec 9 16:59:00 CST 2002
It doesn't work because you are trying to compare a string to an array. You
need to loop through your array and compare each item to the input.
var found = false;
for (i=0; i<znum.length; i++)
{
if (znum[i]==txt)
{
found = true;
break;
}
}
if (found)
{
alert("good");
}
else
{
alert("bad");
}
At 05:24 PM 12/9/2002 +0800, todea wrote:
>Can someone help out with som js form validation. I want to validate a zip
>code entered by the user against a list of existing zip codes.
>
>I'm trying to do it like this with a few zip codes in an array. But this
>doesn't work.
>
>
>function validate()
>{
>znum=new Array("10010","90534")
>txt=document.eform.jnumber.value
>if (txt == znum)
> {
> alert("good")
> return true
> }
>else
> {
> alert("Error wrong zip")
> return false
> }
>}
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