Regular expression for required alpha and numeric characters

[.Net Sports]

I am checking for text input on a form validation in javascript that
required at least one numeric character along with any number of alpha
characters for a given input text box. The below is a var declare that
does a method to check for alpha, or numeric, or - _ characters

var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z0-9\-_]");

but doing:

var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z0-9]");

....doesnt work.

????
netsports

[shimmyshack]

On Apr 18, 10:13 pm, ".Net Sports" <[e-mail]:

I am checking for text input on a form validation in javascript that
required at least one numeric character along with any number of alpha
characters for a given input text box. The below is a var declare that
does a method to check for alpha, or numeric, or - _ characters

var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z0-9\-_]");

but doing:

var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z0-9]");

...doesnt work.

????
netsports

var value = 'hi there';
var RegExp = /^[A-Za-z0-9\-_]{6,16}$/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );
}

of course best to limit the max number of chars as well as the min,
here it's 6 to 16.

[.Net Sports]

Thanks for reply, but what I need is to have users enter a proposed
password, whereas the password has to have at least one numeric
character, and yes your idea of between 6 and 16 character range is
acceptable, but what I have is a switch-case routine, whereas one of
the case statements as shown below checks for just alpha character :

case "alpha":
{
var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z]");
if(objValue.value.length 0 && charpos >= 0)
{
if(!strError || strError.length ==0)
{
strError = objValue.name+": Only alphabetic
characters allowed ";
}//if
alert(strError + "\n [Error character position " +
eval(charpos+1)+"]");
return false;
}//if
break;
}

....and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.
thanx
Netsports

On Apr 18, 3:20 pm, shimmyshack <[e-mail]:

On Apr 18, 10:13 pm, ".Net Sports" <[e-mail]:

I am checking for text input on a form validation in javascript that
required at least one numeric character along with any number of alpha
characters for a given input text box. The below is a var declare that
does a method to check for alpha, or numeric, or - _ characters

var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z0-9\-_]");

but doing:

var charpos = objValue.value.search("[^A-Za-z0-9]");

...doesnt work.

????

netsports

var value = 'hi there';
var RegExp = /^[A-Za-z0-9\-_]{6,16}$/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );

}

of course best to limit the max number of chars as well as the min,
here it's 6 to 16.

[Good Man]

".Net Sports" <ba********@cox.netwrote in news:1176950921.045685.277030
@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

eval(charpos+1)+"]");
return false;
}//if
break;
}

...and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.

you seem to have more than one problem going on... using 'eval' is highly,
highly discouraged and quite possibly dangerous.

[shimmyshack]

On Apr 19, 5:28 am, Good Man <[e-mail]:

".Net Sports" <[e-mail] in news:1176950921.045685.277030
@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

eval(charpos+1)+"]");
return false;
}//if
break;
}

...and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.

oops just remove ^ and $

var value = 'hi th4ere';
var RegExp = /[A-Za-z0-9]{6,16}/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );

}

this /does/ impose the requirement you are after.

>
you seem to have more than one problem going on... using 'eval' is highly,
highly discouraged and quite possibly dangerous.

[Lee]

shimmyshack said:

>
On Apr 19, 5:28 am, Good Man <[e-mail]:

>".Net Sports" <[e-mail] in news:1176950921.045685.277030
@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

eval(charpos+1)+"]");
return false;
}//if
break;
}

...and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.

oops just remove ^ and $

var value = 'hi th4ere';
var RegExp = /[A-Za-z0-9]{6,16}/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );

}

this /does/ impose the requirement you are after.

How does that require at least one numeric character?
--

[shimmyshack]

On Apr 19, 9:50 am, shimmyshack <[e-mail]:

On Apr 19, 5:28 am, Good Man <[e-mail]:

".Net Sports" <[e-mail] in news:1176950921.045685.277030
@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

eval(charpos+1)+"]");
return false;
}//if
break;
}

...and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.

oops just remove ^ and $

var value = 'hi th4ere';
var RegExp = /[A-Za-z0-9]{6,16}/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );

}

this /does/ impose the requirement you are after.

you seem to have more than one problem going on... using 'eval' is highly,
highly discouraged and quite possibly dangerous.

well I see what you are after now, sorry for the confusion - I think
you/ were clear - you must use something like

var value = 'hith9ere';
var RegExp = /^[a-zA-Z0-9]*[0-9]+[a-zA-Z0-9]*$/
//or
//var RegExp = /^[a-z0-9]*[0-9]+[a-z0-9]*$/i
//or
//var RegExp = /^\w*\d+\w*$/
if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
//ok
}

of course this allows 0 or more matches in the ranges a-z A-z 0-9
before at least one 0-9 followed by 0 or more matches from the larger
range again.
you could use the i modifier to reduce the complexity of the reg exp
slightly, or in further by using the \w* and \d+ character escapes
although \w includes the underscore character which you might not want
to allow. The 0-9 is repeated in the ranges because you might want
characters from the 0-9 to be repeated non-consecutively. sorry for
being needlessly sure of myself before!

[shimmyshack]

On Apr 19, 6:24 pm, shimmyshack <[e-mail]:

On Apr 19, 9:50 am, shimmyshack <[e-mail]:

On Apr 19, 5:28 am, Good Man <[e-mail]:

".Net Sports" <[e-mail] in news:1176950921.045685.277030
@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

eval(charpos+1)+"]");
return false;
}//if
break;
}

...and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.

oops just remove ^ and $

var value = 'hi th4ere';
var RegExp = /[A-Za-z0-9]{6,16}/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );

}

this /does/ impose the requirement you are after.

you seem to have more than one problem going on... using 'eval' is highly,
highly discouraged and quite possibly dangerous.

well I see what you are after now, sorry for the confusion - I think
you/ were clear - you must use something like

var value = 'hith9ere';
var RegExp = /^[a-zA-Z0-9]*[0-9]+[a-zA-Z0-9]*$/
//or
//var RegExp = /^[a-z0-9]*[0-9]+[a-z0-9]*$/i
//or
//var RegExp = /^\w*\d+\w*$/

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
//ok

}

of course this allows 0 or more matches in the ranges a-z A-z 0-9
before at least one 0-9 followed by 0 or more matches from the larger
range again.
you could use the i modifier to reduce the complexity of the reg exp
slightly, or in further by using the \w* and \d+ character escapes
although \w includes the underscore character which you might not want
to allow. The 0-9 is repeated in the ranges because you might want
characters from the 0-9 to be repeated non-consecutively. sorry for
being needlessly sure of myself before!

just to clarify, you dont need the + after [0-9] because the * is
greedy of course, didnt spot that in time.
so var RegExp = /^\w*\d\w*$/ will do (or equivalent)

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <11*********************@d57g2000hsg.goo
glegroups.com>, Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:50:27, shimmyshack
<ma********@gmail.composted:

...and i'm having trouble figuring how to add the added requirement of
"at least one numeric character" constraint.

>var value = 'hi th4ere';
var RegExp = /[A-Za-z0-9]{6,16}/;

if( RegExp.test(value) )
{
alert( 'yipee' );

}

this /does/ impose the requirement you are after.

Does it enforce at least one character of each type? I think not.

One could do a \d test, and an [a-z] test, and AND the results; but
seeing that the OP seems only to allow alphanumerics then there must be
at least one of digit-letter & letter-digit present, so :

OK = /\d[a-z]|[a-z]\d/i.test(F.X0.value)

If _ is allowed, change [a-z] to \w and omit i. Test it more.

It's a good idea to read the newsgroup c.l.j and its FAQ. See below.

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