Just be aware that with that regular expression you are not allowing cities which names contains white spaces. New York, USA is not going to match. Also non standard ascii characters are not going to match (this could or could not be a problem depending on the language and city names for the countries you need to validate).
Apart of the regular expression, if you must be sure the input correspond to a "city, country" string you could also have cities and countries tables and check that the input is in your tables. Otherwise a string like "AAA, AAA" will match. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Niklas Nson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
