Regex validation problem

[MattMika]

Can anyone point out the problem with this? The commented regex var
and if statement dont work and break the GroupName check when
uncommented. I tested the AccessCodeRegxp with preg_match and it seems
to work fine, it just wont here. Any pointers would be great.

<script language="javas cript"><!--
function check_form() {
var error = 0;
var error_message = "<?php echo JS_ERROR; ?>";
var customers_group _name =
document.custom ers.customers_g roup_name.value ;
var customers_group _access_code =
document.custom ers.customers_g roup_access_cod e.value;

var GroupNameRegxp = /^([0-9a-zA-Z]+){8,32}$/;
/* var AccessCodeRegxp =
/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/;*/
if (!GroupNameRegx p.test(customer s_group_name)) {
error_message = error_message + "<?php echo
ERROR_CUSTOMERS _GROUP_NAME.'\n '; ?>";
error = 1;
}

/* if (!AccessCodeReg xp.test(custome rs_group_access _code) {
error_message = error_message + "< ?php echo
ERROR_CUSTOMERS _GROUP_ACCESS_C ODE; ?>";
error = 1;
}*/

if (error == 1) {
alert(error_mes sage);
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
//--></script>
Matt Mika

"These animals evacuate ethyl alcohol from their bowels and carbon dioxide from their urinary organs. Thus, one can observe how a specially lighter fluid is exuded from the anus and rises vertically whereas a stream of carbon dioxide is ejected at very short intervals from enormously long genitales."

Justus Freiherr von Liebig - 1839

[Larry Marburger]

On Mar 2, 12:58 pm, MattMika <mattm...@hotma il.comwrote:

Can anyone point out the problem with this? The commented regex var
and if statement dont work and break the GroupName check when
uncommented. I tested the AccessCodeRegxp with preg_match and it seems
to work fine, it just wont here. Any pointers would be great.

Matt,

Could you post the string you're trying to match with AccessCodeRegxp ?

--
Larry

[MattMika]

On 2 Mar 2007 13:26:43 -0800, "Larry Marburger" <lm********@gma il.com>
wrote:

>On Mar 2, 12:58 pm, MattMika <mattm...@hotma il.comwrote:

>Can anyone point out the problem with this? The commented regex var
and if statement dont work and break the GroupName check when
uncommented. I tested the AccessCodeRegxp with preg_match and it seems
to work fine, it just wont here. Any pointers would be great.

Matt,

Could you post the string you're trying to match with AccessCodeRegxp ?

I've been trying all kinds of combinations. This is for a form on our
customer groups admin page on our ecommerce site. The idea is to have
our people create 'access codes' that arent real easy to guess when
creating new customer groups, ie. a string 6 to 12 chars in length,
that contains one number, one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter,
and one special character - !, @, #, $, %, ^, & or *

valid codes:
@tHom3
123$aBCD
ThisCod3!
AppleC@re22
As*ixs3

I should've only posted the code below as the groupname stuff works
fine by itself, it only breaks when this 'access code' regex is
present. I've been unable to get the 'access code' regex to check
properly even though the regex works fine in preg_match.

function check_form() {
var error = 0;
var error_message = "<?php echo JS_ERROR; ?>";
var customers_group _access_code =
document.custom ers.customers_g roup_access_cod e.value;

var AccessCodeRegxp =
/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/;

//alert(customers _group_access_c ode);
if (!AccessCodeReg xp.test(custome rs_group_access _code) {
error_message = error_message + "<?php echo
ERROR_CUSTOMERS _GROUP_ACCESS_C ODE; ?>";
error = 1;
}

if (error == 1) {
alert(error_mes sage);
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}

I can see the form input with alert(customers _group_access_c ode);, but
this will not return an error if the code does not comply with the
regex or even when its empty.
TIA
Matt Mika

[scripts.contact]

On Mar 2, 4:26 pm, MattMika <mattm...@hotma il.comwrote:

if (!AccessCodeReg xp.test(custome rs_group_access _code) {

^^ Missing Closing paranthesis.

[MattMika]

On 2 Mar 2007 15:22:11 -0800, sc************* @gmail.com wrote:

>On Mar 2, 4:26 pm, MattMika <mattm...@hotma il.comwrote:

> if (!AccessCodeReg xp.test(custome rs_group_access _code) {

^^ Missing Closing paranthesis.

Sure enough! jeez...

Getting something out of it now, unfortunately it wont match unless my
characters are in the order they are in the regex :(

/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/
ie. digit, lowercase, uppercase, special

Wonder why it doesnt do that in preg_match? Any differences between
how preg_match and js interpret regex I should know about?

Thanks
Matt Mika

[Larry Marburger]

On Mar 2, 7:26 pm, MattMika <mattm...@hotma il.comwrote:

On 2 Mar 2007 15:22:11 -0800, scripts.cont... @gmail.com wrote:

On Mar 2, 4:26 pm, MattMika <mattm...@hotma il.comwrote:

if (!AccessCodeReg xp.test(custome rs_group_access _code) {

^^ Missing Closing paranthesis.

Sure enough! jeez...

Getting something out of it now, unfortunately it wont match unless my
characters are in the order they are in the regex :(

/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/
ie. digit, lowercase, uppercase, special

Wonder why it doesnt do that in preg_match? Any differences between
how preg_match and js interpret regex I should know about?

Thanks
Matt Mika

Matt,

I just tried the following code and it works fine for me.

var re = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/;
alert(re.exec(" aA@3ab"));
alert(re.test(" aA@3ab"));

I didn't try all your code, but the regex should be fine. Go simpler
with your code and see if it really in the regex that's not working
properly.

--
Larry

[MattMika]

On 3 Mar 2007 05:32:51 -0800, "Larry Marburger" <lm********@gma il.com>
wrote:

>I just tried the following code and it works fine for me.

var re = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/;
alert(re.exec( "aA@3ab"));
alert(re.test( "aA@3ab"));

I didn't try all your code, but the regex should be fine. Go simpler
with your code and see if it really in the regex that's not working
properly.

Thanks guys.

Turns out IE7 was the problem(besides the missing parenthesis). Larrys
exec and test code returned null and false so I finally checked
another browser. FireFox and Netscape both do fine with your code and
mine. I'll have to find a machine here running IE6 and see what it
does...

Are there any resources out there that might help me to figure this
out or am I pretty much screwed in IE7? If so I'll probably just scrap
this and generate a access code with no user input allowed...

Thnx,
Matt Mika

[Ivan Marsh]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:22:06 -0700, MattMika wrote:

On 3 Mar 2007 05:32:51 -0800, "Larry Marburger" <lm********@gma il.com>
wrote:

>>I just tried the following code and it works fine for me.

var re = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!@#$%^&*]).{6,12}$/;
alert(re.exec ("aA@3ab"));
alert(re.test ("aA@3ab"));

I didn't try all your code, but the regex should be fine. Go simpler
with your code and see if it really in the regex that's not working
properly.

Thanks guys.

Turns out IE7 was the problem

That doesn't surprise me.

I've seen sites that render exactly the same in IE6, Firefox and Opera
that don't render correctly in IE7... it's a pretty easy assumption that
client-side coding is broken too.