Regular Expression Frustration

[RobertJFP]

All,

I am trying to use a regular expression to validate the author field for a news item submission to our RSS feed. The pattern is:

emailaddress@domain.ext (Firstname Lastname)

The RegEx that I have designed is:

^[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\@[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\.(com|org|net|mil|edu|ca|co.uk|com.au|gov)\s\([A-Z][a-z]+\s[A-Z][a-z]+\)$

When I tried this in 2 different online validators, I get the results I expect. When I try it in my page, http://www.sellingpower.com/test/admin/rss/News_Item.asp, it fails on a string that passes on the validators and that I think should pass. I am at a loss to understand why.

Validation script is:

function Validate_News_Item_Form (theForm)

{

var URLRegExp = new RegExp('^(http?://|ftp://)?(www\.)?[a-zA-Z0-9-\.]+\.(com|org|net|mil|edu|ca|co.uk|com.au|gov)$','');

var emailRegExp = new RegExp('^[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\@[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\.(com|org|net|mil|edu|ca|co.uk|com.au|gov)\s\([A-Z][a-z]+\s[A-Z][a-z]+\)$','');

var isValid = true;

if (theForm.Title.value == '')

{

window.alert('Title cannot be blank.');

theForm.Title.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (theForm.URL.value == '')

{

window.alert('URL cannot be blank.');

theForm.URL.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (!URLRegExp.test(theForm.URL.value))

{

window.alert('URL does not appear to be valid.');

theForm.URL.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (theForm.Description.value == '')

{

window.alert('Description cannot be blank.');

theForm.Description.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (theForm.Description.length > 1028)

{

window.alert('Description is too long.');

theForm.Description.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (theForm.Category.value == '')

{

isValid = window.confirm('Category is blank.');

if (!isValid)

{

theForm.Category.focus();

}

}

else if (theForm.Author.value == '')

{

isValid = window.confirm('Author is blank.');

if (!isValid)

{

theForm.Author.focus();

}

}

else if (!emailRegExp.test(theForm.Author.value))

{

window.alert('Author does not appear to be in the right format.\nemailaddress@domain.ext (Firstname Lastname)');

theForm.Author.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (theForm.Active_Date.value == '')

{

window.alert('Active Date cannot be blank.');

theForm.Active_Date.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (!checkDate(theForm.Active_Date))

{

window.alert('Active Date is not a valid date.');

theForm.Active_Date.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (theForm.Expire_Date.value == '')

{

window.alert('Expire Date cannot be blank.');

theForm.Expire_Date.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (!checkDate(theForm.Expire_Date))

{

window.alert('Expire Date is not a valid date.');

theForm.Expire_Date.focus();

isValid = false;

}

else if (Date.parse(theForm.Active_Date.value) > Date.parse(theForm.Expire_Date.value))

{

window.alert('Expire Date cannot be before Active Date.');

theForm.Active_Date.focus();

isValid = false;

}

return isValid;

}

I realize that this is not an Autoit issue but it came up in GoodSearch.com as a RegEx forum so I am hoping I can get help from someone.

Thank you in advance.

Respectfully,

Robert

[picaxe]

Make sure there aren't any null chars. PCRE as used in AutoIt won't search past a null char. If you used copy & paste into the regexp validator, null chars will not be present in the test string.

[PsaltyDS]

All,

I am trying to use a regular expression to validate the author field for a news item submission to our RSS feed. The pattern is:

emailaddress@domain.ext (Firstname Lastname)

The RegEx that I have designed is:

^[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\@[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\.(com|org|net|mil|edu|ca|co.uk|com.au|gov)\s\([A-Z][a-z]+\s[A-Z][a-z]+\)$

When I tried this in 2 different online validators, I get the results I expect. When I try it in my page, http://www.sellingpower.com/test/admin/rss/News_Item.asp, it fails on a string that passes on the validators and that I think should pass. I am at a loss to understand why.

It costs Jon money to host this site, and he does that for AutoIt.

All I can tell you is that pattern works fine in AutoIt:

_CheckPattern('dingle.berry@yourspace.com (Dingle Berry)')
_CheckPattern('dingle.berry@yourspace.com')

Func _CheckPattern($sData)
    $sRegExp = '^[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\@[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+\.(com|org|net|mil|edu|ca|co.uk|com.au|gov)\s\([A-Z][a-z]+\s[A-Z][a-z]+\)$' 
    If StringRegExp($sData, $sRegExp, 0) Then
        MsgBox(64, "Success", "Matches pattern: " & $sData, 5)
    Else
        MsgBox(16, "Failure", "Does not match pattern: " & $sData, 5)
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>_CheckPattern

[SmOke_N]

We came up as a RegExp forum????? Do I talk about it that much?

I wrote a email validation regexp some time ago I believe... "_IsValidEmail" more than likely.

I'll see if I can find the link and or the udf I wrote.

Edit:

Here's the link:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=308105

Edited November 5, 2007 by SmOke_N

[Blue_Drache]

Well, Smoke, you ARE the resident RegEx nerd.

[SmOke_N]

Well, Smoke, you ARE the resident RegEx nerd.

Well, anything that can be done with RegExp can be done with a combination of the other string functions... but if I can do in 1 to 5 lines of code, what would take me 20 to 300 lines with the other string funcs... why not learn how to use it ... Edited November 5, 2007 by SmOke_N

[Xenobiologist]

Well, Smoke, you ARE the resident RegEx nerd.

Hi,

I believe Ron can do very much, but being a RegEx-nerd ?

So long,

Mega