On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Rodrigo Alves Vieira <rodrig...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello everyone, in my Rails app I need to validate a string that on > creation can not have its first chars empty or composed by any special > chars. > > For example: " file" and "%file" aren't valid. Do you know what Regex I > should use? > You could utilize the "anchor" for this -- that is you say that the line must "begin" with the characters that match the following regex. Something like: /\A[\w]+$/ would work. > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
