[thelist] validation expression help

Andrew Clover and-evolt at doxdesk.com
Wed Dec 29 20:00:38 CST 2004


Casey Crookston <casey at thecrookstons.com> wrote:

> ValidationExpression="\d{1}/\d{1}/\d{4}"

> How do you build an option into the expression to allow 1 or 2 numbers?

\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/\d{4}

However if that's a JavaScript string remember the blackslashes are 
escapes in string literals too, so you have to escape them again:

   var expr= '\\d{1,2}/\\d{1,2}/\\d{4}';
   var re= new RegExp(expr);

Also that's a potentially confusing date format (is it d/m/y or m/d/y?). 
Suggest picking another, maybe ISO (yyyy-mm-dd)?

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