REgular expression validation

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I am using a RegularExpressionValidator to validate against a range on
specific values and it is behaving strangely. My validation expression is as
follows

^001|100|101|101D|102|103|103D|110|110D|111|112|11 3|114|114D|115|115D|116|117|117D|118|118D|119|120| 120D|121|124|126|126D|127|127D|128|128D|129|129D|1 30|130D|131|131D|132|132D|600|610|611|612|613|613D |616|661|711|712|712D|118D$

Which are a series of valid product codes. It validates correctly against
all of the codes that are just numbers, but it does not validate against the
codes that contain a D at the end.

e.g.

It is happy with 001, 100 or 101 but it says 104 is invalid, which is as it
should be. Byt when i enter 110D then it says it is not valid even though it
is in the validation expresion.

Apr 7 '06 #1

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Kevin Spencer

Regular Expressions consume the strings they match, character by character.
Since you put "110" before "110D", "110" will always be consumed as a match
before the opportunity to find the "D" occurs. To fix, this, simply reverse
the order of items which contain other items. For example:

110|110D should be 110D|110
118|118D should be 118D|118

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I am using a RegularExpressionValidator to validate against a range on
specific values and it is behaving strangely. My validation expression is
as
follows

^001|100|101|101D|102|103|103D|110|110D|111|112|11 3|114|114D|115|115D|116|117|117D|118|118D|119|120| 120D|121|124|126|126D|127|127D|128|128D|129|129D|1 30|130D|131|131D|132|132D|600|610|611|612|613|613D |616|661|711|712|712D|118D$

Which are a series of valid product codes. It validates correctly against
all of the codes that are just numbers, but it does not validate against
the
codes that contain a D at the end.

e.g.

It is happy with 001, 100 or 101 but it says 104 is invalid, which is as
it
should be. Byt when i enter 110D then it says it is not valid even though
it
is in the validation expresion.

Apr 7 '06 #2

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