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Hi there:

I just had a quick thought of something that might be useful to me when
creating my web app and I wanted some help on the idea; since this
group has been helpful in the past.

in my app I have a few html forms that require the user to enter in
data, in string form

is it possible to validate if the string is in a valid form..such as
check if its a list

An example

ask the user to enter in a list seperated by commas

so i want something like "apple,banana,g rapes"

is there a way to validate that it was entered that way?

Any help would be appreciated

Aug 21 '06 #1
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OriginalBrownst er wrote:
Hi there:

I just had a quick thought of something that might be useful to me when
creating my web app and I wanted some help on the idea; since this
group has been helpful in the past.

in my app I have a few html forms that require the user to enter in
data, in string form

is it possible to validate if the string is in a valid form..such as
check if its a list

An example

ask the user to enter in a list seperated by commas

so i want something like "apple,banana,g rapes"

is there a way to validate that it was entered that way?

Any help would be appreciated
Yes.

Please read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Peace,
~Simon

Aug 21 '06 #2

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