Hi All,
I've got a textbox where I want to make sure the person has entered at least
3 characters before submitting (it's like a partial name lookup type of
query), so I don't want them to just enter "a" or "e" in the box and bring
back everyone with an "a" or "e" in their name.
I figure that a regular expression validation is the way to go, and I tried
this:
ValidationExpression="^([a-zA-z0-9\s]{3,255})$"
However, this doesn't work all the time, because a user can enter "dr." or
"st." and that is 3 characters but the validation fails, because the "." is
not recognized as a character.
So, can some kind soul help me out with the accurate regular expression for
what I want to accomplish?
Thanks,
Brian 4 1712
Hi Brian,
Why a regular expression? I would just use "TextBox.Text..Length 3".
If you really want a regualr expression, try ".{3,255}". The "." will
match anything (except newlines).
Ethan
Ethan Strauss Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist
Promega Corporation
2800 Woods Hollow Rd.
Madison, WI 53711
608-274-4330
800-356-9526 et***********@promega.com
"Brian Simmons" wrote:
Hi All,
I've got a textbox where I want to make sure the person has entered at least
3 characters before submitting (it's like a partial name lookup type of
query), so I don't want them to just enter "a" or "e" in the box and bring
back everyone with an "a" or "e" in their name.
I figure that a regular expression validation is the way to go, and I tried
this:
ValidationExpression="^([a-zA-z0-9\s]{3,255})$"
However, this doesn't work all the time, because a user can enter "dr." or
"st." and that is 3 characters but the validation fails, because the "." is
not recognized as a character.
So, can some kind soul help me out with the accurate regular expression for
what I want to accomplish?
Thanks,
Brian
ValidationExpression= ".{3,255}"
Btw the ^ and $ at the beginning and end of the expression are redundant in
RegularExpressionValidator since the validation code checks that the match
occurs at position zero and match length equals validated string length.
"Brian Simmons" <ce******@newsgroup.nospamwrote in message
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Hi All,
I've got a textbox where I want to make sure the person has entered at
least 3 characters before submitting (it's like a partial name lookup type
of query), so I don't want them to just enter "a" or "e" in the box and
bring back everyone with an "a" or "e" in their name.
I figure that a regular expression validation is the way to go, and I
tried this:
ValidationExpression="^([a-zA-z0-9\s]{3,255})$"
However, this doesn't work all the time, because a user can enter "dr." or
"st." and that is 3 characters but the validation fails, because the "."
is not recognized as a character.
So, can some kind soul help me out with the accurate regular expression
for what I want to accomplish?
Thanks,
Brian
On 28 , 20:01, "Brian Simmons" <centr...@newsgroup.nospamwrote:
Hi All,
I've got a textbox where I want to make sure the person has entered at least
3 characters before submitting (it's like a partial name lookup type of
query), so I don't want them to just enter "a" or "e" in the box and bring
back everyone with an "a" or "e" in their name.
I figure that a regular expression validation is the way to go, and I tried
this:
ValidationExpression="^([a-zA-z0-9\s]{3,255})$"
However, this doesn't work all the time, because a user can enter "dr." or
"st." and that is 3 characters but the validation fails, because the "." is
not recognized as a character.
So, can some kind soul help me out with the accurate regular expression for
what I want to accomplish?
Thanks,
Brian
If you want limit possible characters with letters, numbers and dot:
[a-zA-Z0-9\.]{3,}
It can be shorter [\w\.]{3,} but in that case it also allows
underscore.
Regards,
Mykola http://marss.co.ua
Hello Sherif,
ValidationExpression= ".{3,255}"
Btw the ^ and $ at the beginning and end of the expression are
redundant in RegularExpressionValidator since the validation code
checks that the match occurs at position zero and match length equals
validated string length.
You might also want to take alook at this article: http://www.informit.com/articles/art...&seqNum=6&rl=1
It describes how to make a CustomValidator which will do a length check.
Should be quite simple to let it check both min and maxlength.
"Brian Simmons" <ce******@newsgroup.nospamwrote in message
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>Hi All,
I've got a textbox where I want to make sure the person has entered at least 3 characters before submitting (it's like a partial name lookup type of query), so I don't want them to just enter "a" or "e" in the box and bring back everyone with an "a" or "e" in their name.
I figure that a regular expression validation is the way to go, and I tried this: ValidationExpression="^([a-zA-z0-9\s]{3,255})$" However, this doesn't work all the time, because a user can enter "dr." or "st." and that is 3 characters but the validation fails, because the "." is not recognized as a character.
So, can some kind soul help me out with the accurate regular expression for what I want to accomplish?
Thanks, Brian
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