[thelist] RegEx problem again

Chris at globet.com Chris at globet.com
Mon Aug 8 11:00:05 CDT 2005


> > Which worked just fine, till we realized we need to allow 
> one or more 
> > SPACES as well! How do you add a space to the pattern? (and 
> allow for 
> > as many spaces as they like?)
> 
> I am not a regex expert, but generally it depends on what 
> implementation you are using.

I believe that the implementation was javascript. In this case \s will
match one instance of any whitespace character (space, tab, line feed
etc). Thus, the following will suffice:

var namematch = /^[a-zA-Z\s]{3,}$/.test(nametext.value);
namematch = (namematch  || /^[a-zA-Z\*\s]{4,}$/.test(nametext.value));

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