Hi,
I am trying to find out if there is a good (Built-in?) way to validate text
input. I would like to check a textbox to see whether user enter a proper
name (without numbers, symbols etc) or if it is a valid phone number (no
letters or symbols) etc or not. Right now I am sending the string to a
subroutine that check it each letter at a time (looping) and tries to match
it with pre-drfined chars using select case. This seems like very
inefficient way of doing this.
I would like to create these validation methods of a class and reuse them in
all my programs.
Any ideas?
Thanks. 7 1308
Thank you Tom.
Would you be able to help me a bit more? I am readin up on regular
expressions but, for some reason, I am a bit confused. It seems I am doing
pretty much ( or close to ) same thing I was doing when comparing one letter
at a time.
For example, I have a string "Jon9y Smith" and I want to make sure that it
is a valid name or not. I will have to either check each char at a time to
make sure there is no char ourside (a-z, A-Z, " ") orsimply check for a
space and assume the names are typed correctly.
Am I missing something here? Any better example I could look at?
thank you.
"Tom John" <tj@noemail.noe mail> wrote in message
news:jp******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:34:18 -0700, "Dragon" <ba***********@ hotmail.com> wrote:
I would like to create these validation methods of a class and reuse them in all my programs.
Have you considered regular expressions?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...onexamples.asp
Hope this helps
Cheers
Tom tj@noemail.noemail
Regular Expression validation is the way to go.
\d - will find any digits in the string
[0-9] - digits 0 - 9
[~!@#$%^&*()-_+=\|][{}<>?,./] - self-explanatory
Thank you Will.
I am beginning to understand that I can easily exclude certain characters.
The main problem I have with this method is that there are too many to
exclude. A user can easily add non a-z char by simply using the Alt
combination. Trying to exclude each one of those could take forever.
I guess I will do some more research to see if I can have an 'include' list
instead of 'exclude' list.
Thank you.
"Will Lastname" <wh****@brinkst er.net> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@g 44g2000cwa.goog legroups.com... Regular Expression validation is the way to go.
\d - will find any digits in the string [0-9] - digits 0 - 9 [~!@#$%^&*()-_+=\|][{}<>?,./] - self-explanatory
Thank you Cor. I will definately have to give it a try. What would you say
which method is better, more efficient, using MaskedTextBox or using Regular
Expressions?
Thanks.
"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <no************ @planet.nl> wrote in message
news:OV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl... Dragon,
This would not be new as it was in 2003
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wdt8exfc
I hope this helps,
Cor
Dragon,
I did not use the MaskedTextBox yet and probably are not able to do that for
a telephon number (we have in Europa a lot of formats for that, only here in
Holland there are even more than one), however I think if you are able to
use it, than it will obviously be better because it is more direct to the
user.
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