Your welcome, It's only because I just did this myself friday. :) ============================================ 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 4:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFINPUT & RegExp 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
