i dont know how, but im going to say some regex work here would do the trick.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Rick Colman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I should have provided more detail. > > This has to do with nucleotide strings in DNA. > > for example, consider the follow string: > > 123 456 789 > act gta ccc ... (spaces not in string, just for clarity) > > Any start position must begin at position 1,4,7, etc. > Any end position must conclude at position 3,6,9 etc. > > So, I am not sure the function below would do exactly what I need?? > > On 5/7/2011 4:40 AM, Jason Fisher wrote: >> If startVal, endVal, and lengthVal represent your values in JS [like var >> startVal = parseInt(myForm.start.value); ], then the following should work: >> >> if (startVal % 3 != 0) { >> alert("Start must be a multiple of 3."); >> return false; >> } else if (endVal % 3 != 0) { >> alert("End must be a multiple of 3."); >> return false; >> } else if (endVal< startVal) { >> alert("End must be larger than Start."); >> return false; >> } else if (endVal> lengthVal) { >> alert("End cannot be larger than Length."); >> return false; >> } >> return true; >> >> You could put that into a function and call the function on the form >> onsubmit(return myFunction()). >> >> >> On 5/6/2011 5:51 PM, Rick Colman wrote: >>> I have the following: >>> >>> length: xxx start [ ] end [ ] >>> >>> I would like to test for the following conditions: >>> >>> * must be an integer >>> * start and end must be evenly divisible by 3 >>> * end cannot exceed length >>> >>> CFINPUT works for type test, but not sure how to generate the javascript >>> validation that would be required. >>> >>> Rick. >>> >>> >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344358 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
