It should work. Can you show us more code and steps to reproduce the problem?
On Nov 8, 5:14 am, villas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Niphlod > > That's a good idea to test in the shell, where it worked fine. > > However, it still doesn't seem to work in the following contexts: > > Field('name','string', requires=CLEANUP() ) > --or-- > db.testtable.fieldstring.requires= CLEANUP() > > Maybe it's not meant to be used like that? > > Thanks for your help! > -D > > On Nov 8, 1:42 am, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, the method is correct, in the sense that CLEANUP() actually > > removes leading and trailing space. > > You should use .strip() only if you need to "preserve" special > > characters in the field. Actually CLEANUP removes any special > > character and newlines from the field (it applies the regex "[^ \n\w]" > > and then remove all the matching items). > > > PS: It's easy to test out validators: just go to the shell and then: > > - CLEANUP()('hello world!') > > - CLEANUP()(' hi this is going to be stripped ') > > - CLEANUP()('£uk3 $k1Walker') > > > and watch for the first element of the tuple (the second one contains > > the errors usually but CLEANUP validator don't return them) > > > - ('hello world', None) #the ! has been removed > > - ('hi this is going to be stripped', None) # leading and trailing > > space removed > > - ('uk3 k1Walker', None) # $ and £ removed > > > Niphlod > > > On 7 Nov, 21:25, villas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > I believe this is the correct way to remove leading and trailing > > > spaces from strings. > > > > Q1. > > > db.define_table('test', > > > Field('name','string', requires=CLEANUP() ) > > > ) > > > But I need regex in there? Sorry I couldn't figure the solution :( > > > > Q2. > > > So, at the moment I am doing this instead: > > > if request.vars.name: > > > request.vars.name= request.vars.name.strip() > > > Can anyone see a problem with this method? (Maybe it's better?). > > > > -D > >
