Regular Expression for multiline validation

[Mark]

To validate the length of a multiline textbox, I'm told that I have to use a
regular expression validator. The regular expression below limits it to 25
characters in length, but if the user enters a hard return, it bombs
regardless of length. How do you allow hard returns in the following
regular expression? Thanks in advance!

^.{0,25}$

Mark

[Sonali.NET[MVP]]

Take a look @ Tips and Trick Section Recent Validating MaxLength of the TextArea using CustomValidator

http://www.aspnet101.com/aspnet101/tips.aspx

"Mark" <fi**************@umn.edu> wrote in message news:eM**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

To validate the length of a multiline textbox, I'm told that I have to use a
regular expression validator. The regular expression below limits it to 25
characters in length, but if the user enters a hard return, it bombs
regardless of length. How do you allow hard returns in the following
regular expression? Thanks in advance!

^.{0,25}$

Mark

[S. Justin Gengo]

Mark,

Sorry, I took that expression from another forum's post. I had never
actually tested it myself. My bad. I just played around a bit. Try this
instead: ^[\s\S]{0,10}$

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"Mark" <fi**************@umn.edu> wrote in message
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That looks great for server side validation, but what about client side?
Thanks.

Mark

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Take a look @ Tips and Trick Section Recent Validating MaxLength of the
TextArea using CustomValidator

http://www.aspnet101.com/aspnet101/tips.aspx

"Mark" <fi**************@umn.edu> wrote in message
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To validate the length of a multiline textbox, I'm told that I have to use

a

regular expression validator. The regular expression below limits it to

25 characters in length, but if the user enters a hard return, it bombs
regardless of length. How do you allow hard returns in the following
regular expression? Thanks in advance!

^.{0,25}$

Mark

[Eric]

Use a regular expression validator with the expression "(.|\r|\n){0,255}"
replacing the 0 and 255 with the minimum and maximum lengths that you need.


"Mark" <fi**************@umn.edu> wrote in message
news:eM**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

To validate the length of a multiline textbox, I'm told that I have to use a regular expression validator. The regular expression below limits it to 25
characters in length, but if the user enters a hard return, it bombs
regardless of length. How do you allow hard returns in the following
regular expression? Thanks in advance!

^.{0,25}$

Mark