Robert, I tried to get mask to work (although until today I had no knowledge of regular expressions) using the ORA demonstration applet and I couldn't get it to (including your suggestion).
I'm not saying regular expressions couldn't work (only I don't know how to make them!), but the pattern's used in DecimalFormat are so much more straight forward and designed for the task. Typically as people are probably using a pattern with DecimalFormat to output the data to screen, it then is much easier and intuitive to specify the same pattern for validation. I say horses for courses and to me using a number pattern to validate numbers is a better way to do it - hence the enhacement request: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26151 Thanks Niall > Robert Leland wrote: > > So using mask won't work ? (my syntax below is probably not correct) > > <field property="amount" depends="required,mask"> > <arg0 key="sale.amount" /> > <var> > <var-name>mask</var-name> > <var-value>\d,\d\d0\:\(\d,\d\d0\)</var-value> > </var> > </field> I need to validate numbers which are formatted and have posted a patch to bugzilla which enhances validator the existing number validations to do this. This patch allows an optional "numberPattern" variable to be specified for the existing byte, short, integer, long, float and double validations. For Example: <field property="amount" depends="required,integer"> <arg0 key="sale.amount" /> <var> <var-name>numberPattern</var-name> <var-value>#,##0:(#,##0)</var-value> </var> </field> If the pattern is specified, then java.text.DecimalFormat is used to parse the number and check if it is valid (catering for Locale). I have also posted a patch to add a new section the Validator User Guide which describes all the standard suppiled validations and shows examples of usage, including using the new "numberPattern" variable. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Niall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
