Flavio, Thank you, this works perfectly.
It could be easily added to ERXWOTextField and WOText element by default... Is there any situation where control char would be desirable in a web text input (except for the tab and new line) ? Samuel > Le 13 sept. 2016 à 10:05, Flavio Donadio <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Samuel, > > > The user might have copied from another app and pasted into the field. > > The solution is to strip control characters from the user input. As you may > know, there are a lot of ways to do that and dependent on the use case. For > example, if it’s a multiline text input control (textarea), you may want to > keep certain characters like carriage returns, line feeds and tabs. > > One example of stripping all control characters using pure Java: > > String.replaceAll("\\p{Cntrl}", "”); > > … and one example of stripping every control character, except for CR, LF and > TAB: > > String.replaceAll("[\\p{Cntrl}^\r\n\t]+", ""); > > I am sure NSString has methods for that... > > > Cheers, > Flavio > >> On 13/09/2016, at 09:40, Samuel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just encountered a strange error where a user managed to put a DEL char >> inside a text field. This char raise an SQL Exception in the server. >> >> First, I really would like to know how they manage to do this ! I do not >> even know how to put a DEL (code 127) inside text with the keyboard. I had >> some case with other control char in the past too. >> >> Second, is there a wonder way to filter these or a Javascript method to >> prevent them from the source, or any suggestion to handle this ? >> >> Real users are alway a source of unpredicted challenges. >> >> Thank, >> >> Samuel >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/flavio%40donadio.com.br >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
