Thanks :) On 12 Aug, 16:19, 7stud -- <[email protected]> wrote: > Juan Alvarado wrote in post #1016383: > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > >> On 12 August 2011 14:08, Niklas Nson <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I need to validate a string from a user (a location for use with > >>> geotagging) that is. I want to make sure that the user specify a city > >>> and a country in my inp ... So i wrote this => > > >>> validates :usri_location, > >>> :presence => true, > >>> :format => {:with => /^[a-zA-Z]+{\,\s}+[a-zA-Z]/i}, > > > You have {} instead of () around the , and \s. Also, I don't believe > > the ',' has to be escaped (it didn't work with it escaped and it does if > > i remove the escaping. With those 2 issues fixed it works for me on > > rubular. > > Also \s matches tabs and newlines, so your regex would match things > like: > > xxxx, yyyy > > and > > xxxx, > yyy > > so if you just want to match a space, then use a space in your regex: > > /[a-zA-Z]+, [a-zA-z]+/ > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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