LOL - I'm glad it's what you're looking for. Consider it my Christmas
present to you. Now, what'd you get ME? ;-)
I still don't recommend your approach :-) You might wind up rejecting
peoples' names because they don't fit your regexp!
Good Luck!
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:41:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your help Eddie! Regex worked perfect.
>
> I had given up hope on getting right regex.
> Thanks Again!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eddie Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Struts Form Validation Question
>
> > ^([a-zA-Z]+['-\s])*$
> >
> > That's top of my head ... and my head is tired :-( but maybe it's
> > helpful. You need to separate the repeating things from the
> > non-repeating things, and allow the two of them to be chained multiple
> > times. Having such complete validation of a name seems error-prone at
> > best though, since names can take on such diverse forms. You're
> > likely to wind up turning down someone's correct name as invalid
> > because your pattern doesn't fit their name. I don't know about you,
> > but if you turned my name down as invalid, and I entered it correctly,
> > it would aggravate me :-)
> >
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:36:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am using struts validator plugin. I have form field which requires
> >> following validation:
> >> "Full Name can contain only letters, dashes (-), apsotrophes(') and
> >> single spaces"
> >>
> >> Here is the regex I am using for this validation : ^[a-zA-Z'-\s]*$
> >> The only problem with this regex is that it allows user to enter
> >> more
> >> than one consecutive blank space in the field.
> >> So I landed up putting the check for double space in the Struts Form
> >> bean Validate method.
> >>
> >> Dividing the validation in two parts has created a scenario when some
> >> time user see the same error message twice because
> >> validation failed in plugin as wells in form validate method.
> >>
> >> For the time being I have changed the two message little bit so user
> >> is
> >> not confused. But I would like to show only one message
> >> irrespective of where the validation failed.
> >>
> >> Any Ideas ?
> >>
> >> Thanks for help!
> >>
> >> Rajesh Shah
> >
> > --
> > Eddie Bush
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Eddie Bush
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