Thank you John...works great.
Bruce Sisk
BFS Enterprises
-----Original Message-----
>From: John Sundberg <john.sundb...@kineticdata.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 1:46 PM
>To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Help with Regular Expression
>
>Try this: /(^\w{13}$)|(^\w{17}$)/
>
>
>
>
>x = "1234567890" # 10 chars -- should be false
>x = "1234567890123" # 13 chars -- should be true
>x = "12345678901234" # 14 chars -- should be false
>x = "12345678901234567" # 17 chars -- should be true
>
>
>(Using Ruby)
>
>puts x.match(/(^\w{13}$)|(^\w{17}$)/)
>
>
>
>-John
>
>
>
>On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:02 AM, bruce sisk wrote:
>
>I am new to regular expressions.
>
>I need to limit a field to either 13 characters...or 17 characters...
>
>This is what I came up with:
>
>\b[A-Za-z0-9]{13}\b|\b[A-Za-z0-9]{17}\b
>
>This doesn't seem to work...individually they do...but when joined
>with the OR it always fails.
>
>Any help from those who have experience would be appreciated.
>
>How does this belong on the ARSList you ask??? I am working with
>Kinetic Request and can use Regular Expressions to validate a field
>before it is submitted to Remedy.
>
>I need to throw the error before submitting the request.
>
>Bruce Sisk
>BFS Enterprises
>
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