Hi, I need to validate a hi/low range, allowing decimal numbers. For
this example, the low is 1, high is 5, but something is not working. I
got this script from someone helping me in this group, but I must have
done something wrong. When I enter 7, it prompts me as an incorrect
entry, as expected. However, when I enter 22 or 23, etc. the script
passes those entries (perhaps accepting individual numbers between 1
and 5. Sorry, but the regular expression stuff is hardly my strong
suit...
Please tell me where I've gone astray! Thanks, Kathy
function ValidateSave(fo rmRef,fieldName ,min,max)var formField =
formRef.element s[fieldName];
if (!/^\d+(\.\d+)?$/.test(formField .value)) {
alert('Invalid entry...please try again!');
formField.focus ();
formField.selec t();
return false;
}
if ((formField.val ue < min) || (formField.valu e > max)) {
alert("The entry must be between " +min+ " and " +max+ ".");
formField.focus ();
formField.selec t();
return false;
} 5 1620
KathyB said: Hi, I need to validate a hi/low range, allowing decimal numbers. For this example, the low is 1, high is 5, but something is not working. I got this script from someone helping me in this group, but I must have done something wrong. When I enter 7, it prompts me as an incorrect entry, as expected. However, when I enter 22 or 23, etc. the script passes those entries (perhaps accepting individual numbers between 1 and 5. Sorry, but the regular expression stuff is hardly my strong suit...
Please tell me where I've gone astray! Thanks, Kathy
if ((formField.val ue < min) || (formField.valu e > max)) {
The problem is not with the regular expressions, but with the
comparisons. Field values are strings, and so the comparisons
are being done as string comparisons, and the string "22" is
less than the string "5".
You need to convert the values to integers before comparing.
One simple way to do that is to apply the unary plus sign to
them. Since that operator only applies to numbers, the engine
will automatically convert the values to numbers for you:
if ((+formField.va lue < min) || (+formField.val ue > max))
Lee wrote on 24 Nov 2003:
<snip> You need to convert the values to integers before comparing. One simple way to do that is to apply the unary plus sign to them. Since that operator only applies to numbers, the engine will automatically convert the values to numbers for you:
if ((+formField.va lue < min) || (+formField.val ue > max))
Alternatively, you could use the constructor of the Number object:
if (( Number( formField.value ) < min )
|| ( Number( formField.value ) > max )) {
}
I personally prefer the second, though they both result in the same
behaviour. Using Number is a little more readable, and doesn't run
the risk of doing something unintended, like concatenating (if you
placed another argument in front of the plus in Lee's example).
Mike
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Michael Winter M.******@blueyo nder.co.uk.invalid (remove ".invalid" to reply)
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:42:34 GMT
Michael Winter <M.******@bluey onder.co.uk.inv alid> wrote:
<snip> Alternatively, you could use the constructor of the Number object:
if (( Number( formField.value ) < min ) || ( Number( formField.value ) > max )) { }
I personally prefer the second, though they both result in the same behaviour. Using Number is a little more readable, and doesn't run the risk of doing something unintended, like concatenating (if you placed another argument in front of the plus in Lee's example).
I agree. I always prefer the obvious to non-intuitive idioms.
--
Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average
depth of six inches.
-- W. I. E. Gates
JRS: In article <Xn************ *************** ****@193.38.113 .46>, seen
in news:comp.lang. javascript, Michael Winter <M.******@bluey onder.co.uk.
invalid> posted at Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:42:34 :- Alternativel y, you could use the constructor of the Number object:
if (( Number( formField.value ) < min ) || ( Number( formField.value ) > max )) { }
Rather than that, I suggest
var T = Number( formField.value ) // or +formField.valu e
if (T < min || T > max ) {
}
IMHO, once one is accustomed to seeing such as
var T = +formField.valu e
one will on reading it readily see that it is a means of getting what is
wanted (a number) from what is available (a field, holding a string),
and will not be over-tempted to fiddle with it inappropriately .
AFAICS, a + directly after an assignment operator must be a unary
arithmetic operator, whose only purpose can be conversion to number.
--
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