Validation reg ex for Texarea is failing

Spencerspins

Hi I have the following regex for a textarea o limit characters to 100 max, but its failing with this meaasge

Root cause:
SAX Parse:The value of attribute "validation-regex" associated with an element type "textarea" must not contain the '<' character.

reg ex
<br /><br />Error goes away when I remove the $ at the end but then regex wont work to restrict max chars to 100<br />is it because we are using ipl file to create DCT? is there any solution to this?<br /><br />Thanks

Spencerspins

Sorry. here is the validation reg I could not edit the previosu post after I posted it.

validation-regex="^[\s\S]{1,1000}$"

When I remove the $ error goes away but then regex will not work. I think it's because we are using ipl file to write out DCT. Is there any alternative method to restrict max length apart from FormAPi