Thank you Manuele for the quick answer. Even though I read the documentation I didn't understand that I could do that! Thank you for pointing that out to me. It works great.
Thanks again. On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:51:22 AM UTC+2, Manuele wrote: > > Off course you can! > > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#Validators > > Check out the examples reported in doc for un derstanding the standard > behaviour of validators, such as: > > >>> IS_MATCH('a')('ba') > ('ba', <lazyT 'invalid expression'>) # no pass > >>> IS_MATCH('a',strict=False)('ab') > ('a', None) # pass! > > > the second element of the output is expected to be an error message and if > it's None the test is a passed! > > Cheers > > Manuele > > Il 10/12/14 09:33, desta ha scritto: > > Hi, > > web2py features some really useful validators. Is it possible to use them > outside of forms? For example, lets assume a string that contains comma > separated emails as inputted from the user. After splitting the string to > extract individual emails, can I use the IS_EMAIL validator to validate > each email? > > Thank you. > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
