Bryan:
Thank you, you nailed it ! I knew it was going to be something stupid !
I removed the slash delimiters and it worked as desired.
Thank you for taking the time to help out, it is much appreciated !
-Gerry
Gerard T. Pauline
Mgr, Internet Applications
Computer Systems, DoIT
Pace University
"Bryan F. Hogan" wrote:
>
> replace your pattern="/^\d{4}\-\d{3}\-\d{4}$/"
>
> with pattern="^\d{4}\-\d{3}\-\d{4}$"
>
> ============================================
> Bryan F. Hogan
> Director of Internet Development
> Macromedia Certified ColdFusion MX Developer
> Digital Bay Media, Inc.
> 1-877-72DIGITAL
> ============================================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan F. Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 2:46 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CFINPUT & RegExp
>
> Hi Gerry remove the first character and the last character and re-run it.
>
> ============================================
> Bryan F. Hogan
> Director of Internet Development
> Macromedia Certified ColdFusion MX Developer
> Digital Bay Media, Inc.
> 1-877-72DIGITAL
> ============================================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Pauline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 2:39 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: CFINPUT & RegExp
>
> CFxperts:
>
> I'm using CFFORM to create an online survey for a user. In one of the
> CFINPUT tags, I'm using a regular express to validate an entry. I coded
> the VALIDATE= and PATTERN= parms as follows:
>
> <CFINPUT type="text"
> SIZE="40"
> MAXLENGTH="13"
> VALIDATE="regular_expression"
> PATTERN="/^\d{4}\-\d{3}\-\d{4}$/"
> NAME="BudgetNo"
> REQUIRED="Yes"
> MESSAGE="Please enter your BUDGET NUMBER !">
>
> The text should contain three numeric quadrants delimited by hyphens,
> for example: 1000-909-1033. As you may guess, it doesn't seem to be
> working. According to the manual, a JavaScript regular expression should
> be used, which I believe is specified correctly.
>
> The CFFORM tag is coded as follows:
>
> <CFFORM NAME="TAsurvey"
> METHOD="POST"
> ACTION="TASurveyToDB.CFM"
> ONSUBMIT="return chkForm()">
>
> As you can see, it calls another JS function in addition to using the
> builtin valadation features of the CFINPUT tag. The other tags using the
> CFINPUT validation calls all work OK (only the tag above uses a regular
> expression).
>
> Could someone please advise me on what I'm doing wrong (besides being
> lazy and using CFFORM in the first place !). Any and all
> advise/suggestions/help will be gratefully appreciated !
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Gerry
>
> Gerard T. Pauline
> Mgr, Internet Applications
> Computer Systems, DoIT
> Pace University
>
>
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