what's wrong with?
IS_MATCH('[0-9]+')
IS_MATCH('[a-zA-Z]+')
On Aug 28, 12:59 pm, Saurabh Sawant <[email protected]> wrote:
> But IS_ALPHANUMERIC by virtue of its name suggests both letters and
> numbers. Having separate validators for each of the cases would make
> the code more readable.
>
> db.auth_user.first_name.requires=IS_LETTERS()
> db.auth_user.age.requires=IS_DIGITS()
>
> is more readable and less ambiguous than
>
> db.auth_user.first_name.requires=IS_ALPHANUMERIC(filter='letters')
> db.auth_user.mobile.requires=IS_ALPHANUMERIC(filter='numbers')
>
> On Aug 28, 10:13 pm, Bruno Rocha <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Or maybe the IS_ALPHANUMERIC can be extended and receive aditional argument
> > 'filter' to allow only letters or only numbers
>
> > IS_ALPHANUMERIC(error_message='....', filter='numbers') # to allow only
> > digits
> > IS_ALPHANUMERIC(error_message='....', filter='letters') # to allow letters
>
> > can have some filter to allow special, underscores etc...
>
> >http://web2py.com/book/default/docstring/IS_ALPHANUMERIC
>
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Saurabh Sawant <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I think these validators would be a nice addition to the great set of
> > > validators we already have. They can be useful for fields for names
> > > and phone numbers.
>
> > > class IS_LETTERS(Validator):
> > > """
> > > Checks if field's value consists of all letters
>
> > > example::
>
> > > INPUT(_type='text', _name='name', requires=IS_LETTERS())
>
> > > >>> IS_LETTERS()("A")
> > > ('A', None)
> > > >>> IS_LETTERS()("")
> > > ('', None)
> > > >>> IS_LETTERS()("A_")
> > > ('A_', 'enter only letters')
> > > >>> IS_LETTERS()("!")
> > > ('!', 'enter only letters')
> > > """
>
> > > def __init__(self, error_message='enter only letters'):
> > > IS_MATCH.__init__(self, '^[A-Za-z]*$', error_message)
>
> > > class IS_DIGITS(Validator):
> > > """
> > > Checks if field's value consists of all numeric digits
>
> > > example::
>
> > > INPUT(_type='text', _name='name', requires=IS_DIGITS())
>
> > > >>> IS_NUMBERS()("1")
> > > ('1', None)
> > > >>> IS_NUMBERS()("")
> > > ('', None)
> > > >>> IS_NUMBERS()("A")
> > > ('A', 'enter only numbers')
> > > >>> IS_NUMBERS()("!")
> > > ('!', 'enter only numbers')
> > > """
>
> > > def __init__(self, error_message='enter only digits'):
> > > IS_MATCH.__init__(self, '^[0-9]*$', error_message)
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Saurabh Sawant
>
> > --
>
> > --
> > Bruno Rocha
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