Validating

[Mark]

Hi,

Is it possible to validate the 1st 2 characters in a text box as letter,
then the following 5 characters as numbers and if the input is incorrect for
it to display an alert?
It seems to be checking the entire field as opposed to the first 2
characters being letters & the following 5 being numbers.

The code I am using at the moment is:
function validateStudent Number(studentN umber)
{
if (isBlank(studen tNumber)) // blank?
{
alert("Enter your student number please in the format of 2 uppercase
letters followed by 5 numbers")
return false
}
for (var i = 0; i < studentNumber.l ength; i++) // letters?
{
var testChar = studentNumber.c harAt(i)
if (testChar < "A" || testChar > "Z")
{
alert("Enter your student number please in the format of 2 uppercase
letters followed by 5 numbers")
return false
}
for (var i = 0; i < studentNumber.l ength; i++) // numeric?
{
var testChar = studentNumber.c harAt(i)
if (testChar < "0" || testChar > "9")
}
alert("Enter your student number please in the format of 2 uppercase
letters followed by 5 numbers")
return false
}


Many Thanks

Mark

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Validating

Mark wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is it possible to validate the 1st 2 characters in a text box as letter,
> then the following 5 characters as numbers and if the input is incorrect for
> it to display an alert?^[/color]

Reads familiar to me, have you searched with Google Groups before posting?
[color=blue]
> It seems to be checking the entire field as opposed to the first 2
> characters being letters & the following 5 being numbers.
>
> The code I am using at the moment is:
> [much too complicated :-)][/color]

Use Regular Expressions (RegExp) instead:

var s = referenceToText Box.value;
if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))
alert("BOO!");


PointedEars

[Mark]

Re: Validating

Thanks for that!

Am I implimenting this into my code right as I keep getting an Object
expected error:

function validateNumber( Number)
{
if (isBlank(Number )) // blank?
{
alert("Enter your number please in the format of 2 uppercase
letters followed by 5 numbers")
return false
}
var s = Number.value;
if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))
{
alert("Enter your number please in the format of 2 uppercase
letters followed by 5 numbers");
return false
}
return true
}

Thanks for your help once again, sorry if the question seen dense but im new
to Javascripting

Mark

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@we b.de> wrote in message
news:boij0s$1ep abl$1@ID-107532.news.uni-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> Mark wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Is it possible to validate the 1st 2 characters in a text box as letter,
> > then the following 5 characters as numbers and if the input is incorrect[/color][/color]
for[color=blue][color=green]
> > it to display an alert?^[/color]
>
> Reads familiar to me, have you searched with Google Groups before posting?
>[color=green]
> > It seems to be checking the entire field as opposed to the first 2
> > characters being letters & the following 5 being numbers.
> >
> > The code I am using at the moment is:
> > [much too complicated :-)][/color]
>
> Use Regular Expressions (RegExp) instead:
>
> var s = referenceToText Box.value;
> if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))
> alert("BOO!");
>
>
> PointedEars
>[/color]

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Validating

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@we b.de> writes:
[color=blue]
> Mark wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Is it possible to validate the 1st 2 characters in a text box as letter,
> > then the following 5 characters as numbers and if the input is incorrect for
> > it to display an alert?^[/color]
>
> Use Regular Expressions (RegExp) instead:
>
> var s = referenceToText Box.value;
> if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))[/color]

That actually fails the specification, since Word Characters (\w)
includes digits (which can be abbreviated as \d).

Unless the original poster wants international characters in the first
two positions, he can use
if (! (/^[a-z]{2}\d{5}/g).test(s))

He didn't say, but my guess is that there can be nothing after the
five digits, so the regular expression should probably have a "$"
before the last "/".

/L
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'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Validating

"Mark" <not@chance.com > writes:
[color=blue]
> function validateNumber( Number)[/color]

The Number argument is a string containing the value of the input element.
Correct?
[color=blue]
> var s = Number.value;[/color]

That means that you shouldn't try to get the value again. Strings don't
have a property called "value". Just
var s = Number;
(or just use Number in the next line)
[color=blue]
> if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))[/color]

You probably want
if (! (/^[A-Z]{2}\d{5}/).test(Number))

It only allows uppercase English letters.
This test also fails if the string is empty, so you don't need
the isBlank test.
[color=blue]
> {
> alert("Enter your number please in the format of 2 uppercase
> letters followed by 5 numbers");[/color]

Use "digits", not "numbers". Five numbers could be 42, 37, 1594323, pi
and -24 :)

[color=blue]
> "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@we b.de> wrote in message
> news:boij0s$1ep abl$1@ID-107532.news.uni-berlin.de...[/color]

Please don't quote the entire previous message if you don't reply
directly to it. Trim your quotes, and preferably reply below quotes of
the parts you reply to (like I do :).

/L
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'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

[Mark]

Re: Validating

Thanks for your help guys, got it working a treat!!


"Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lrn@hotpop.com > wrote in message
news:k76b6pah.f sf@hotpop.com.. .[color=blue]
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@we b.de> writes:
>[color=green]
> > Mark wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > > Is it possible to validate the 1st 2 characters in a text box as[/color][/color][/color]
letter,[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > then the following 5 characters as numbers and if the input is[/color][/color][/color]
incorrect for[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > it to display an alert?^[/color]
> >
> > Use Regular Expressions (RegExp) instead:
> >
> > var s = referenceToText Box.value;
> > if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))[/color]
>
> That actually fails the specification, since Word Characters (\w)
> includes digits (which can be abbreviated as \d).
>
> Unless the original poster wants international characters in the first
> two positions, he can use
> if (! (/^[a-z]{2}\d{5}/g).test(s))
>
> He didn't say, but my guess is that there can be nothing after the
> five digits, so the regular expression should probably have a "$"
> before the last "/".
>
> /L
> --
> Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lrn@hotpop.com
> DHTML Death Colors:[/color]
<URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleD OM.html>[color=blue]
> 'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'[/color]

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Validating

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:[color=blue]
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@we b.de> writes:[color=green]
>> Mark wrote:[color=darkred]
>> > Is it possible to validate the 1st 2 characters in a text box as letter,
>> > then the following 5 characters as numbers and if the input is incorrect for
>> > it to display an alert?^[/color]
>>
>> Use Regular Expressions (RegExp) instead:
>>
>> var s = referenceToText Box.value;
>> if (! /^\w{2}[0-9]{5}/.test(s))[/color]
>
> That actually fails the specification, since Word Characters (\w)
> includes digits (which can be abbreviated as \d).[/color]

ACK, my bad.
[color=blue]
> Unless the original poster wants international characters in the first
> two positions, he can use
> if (! (/^[a-z]{2}\d{5}/g).test(s))[/color]

`/g' is inefficient here and the parantheses around the RegExp are not
required. But `/i' would be useful here because `letters' includes
lowercase *and* uppercase letters. Did you mix up both flags?


PointedEars

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Validating

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@we b.de> writes:
[color=blue]
> `/g' is inefficient here and the parantheses around the RegExp are not
> required. But `/i' would be useful here because `letters' includes
> lowercase *and* uppercase letters. Did you mix up both flags?[/color]

Yep. I meant "i". :)
/L
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'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

[Dr John Stockton]

Re: Validating

JRS: In article <bom1ec$1f0n81$ 1@ID-107532.news.uni-berlin.de>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@we b.de> posted at Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:37:35 :-
[color=blue]
> But `/i' would be useful here because `letters' includes
>lowercase *and* uppercase letters.[/color]

Indeed it does.

But the error messages presented on the code in the first article in the
thread included two instances of

alert("Enter your student number please in the format of 2 uppercase
letters followed by 5 numbers")

which implies that the letters should be specified as A-Z, without i
modifier. The OP is apparently within the UK, so there is probably no
need to consider upper-case letters outside that range, such as Æ Ð Ö.

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