basic query regarding regular expressions

hi frnds

i am new user of perl and interwoven,i was trying to implement the following regular expression in text box created for testing purposes :-

as per my unstding it means that text shld start with 0-9 and it matches the entire text 0 or more times and it shld also end with digits only but i am able to fill anything in text box be it alphabets or special characters,i dont unstd where i am going wrong,pls help regarding this basic issue

regards,
rahul

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kaalraa

hi frnds

i am new user of perl and interwoven,i was trying to implement the following regular expression in text box created for testing purposes :-

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as per my unstding it means that text shld start with 0-9 and it matches the entire text 0 or more times and it shld also end with digits only but i am able to fill anything in text box be it alphabets or special characters,i dont unstd where i am going wrong,pls help regarding this basic issue

regards,
rahul

The given regular expression means that any number of only digits would find a match.

a.) 23435345435 is a match
b.) abc32543xyz is NOT a match
c.) 32432sdfd is NOT a match
d.) sdfsedf34546 is NOT a match

Also, if possible please provide your requirements clearly.... so that one can help you in creation of regex.

HTH

Phanie

we dont see your regex expression. Please preview your post before you submit it.

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maverick83

yes,kalra thanks for ur prompt response,i was thinking on same lines that in any case it shld take only digits and not anything else

there are no requirements really ,i am a newbie and was just testing the following item on my own

[php]

whole amount

[/php]

i ll try to find out what's going wrong

kaalraa

yes,kalra thanks for ur prompt response,i was thinking on same lines that in any case it shld take only digits and not anything else

there are no requirements really ,i am a newbie and was just testing the following item on my own

[php]

whole amount

[/php]

i ll try to find out what's going wrong

In that case, following link would be a great help to you.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html

Evani20

As you said you don't have any requirement right now, you are just practicing; for that case here are some regx code that you can play around....

HTML code:

#item name="name" >
#text required="f" validation-regex="^\D+$" maxlength="50" />
#/item>

#item name="SSC">
#text required="t" validation-regex="^\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}$" maxlength="11"/>
#/item>

#item name="phone">
#text required="t" validation-regex="^\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}$" maxlength="12"/>
#/item>

Good Luck.

Adam Stoller

yes,kalra thanks for ur prompt response,i was thinking on same lines that in any case it shld take only digits and not anything else

there are no requirements really ,i am a newbie and was just testing the following item on my own

[php]

whole amount

[/php]

i ll try to find out what's going wrong

You are able to enter any characters in that textfield - but are you able to save the DCR? The validation-regex is used at the time of saving not at the time of entry.

BTW - you probably want to use '+' instead of '*' - as you want '1-or-more-digits' not '0-or-more', at least I imagine that's what you'd want.

maverick83

You are able to enter any characters in that textfield - but are you able to save the DCR? The validation-regex is used at the time of saving not at the time of entry.

BTW - you probably want to use '+' instead of '*' - as you want '1-or-more-digits' not '0-or-more', at least I imagine that's what you'd want.

you are right ghoti ,also the other site provided regarding regular expressions is really helpful ,thanks for all the help