Member Application + regex

testy1 · Worker Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 139

Im setting up the member application and see that i can use a validated entry with it, it asks for regex so i assume it means javascript regex or are all regex the same no matter what language.

basically i want people to give me a path for e.g. there specific file path.

e.g.

/var/home/billybob/rocks/

in the above e.g. is it possible to check for say a starting / and then only uppercase or lowercase letters and maybe underscores and then check for another /

i hope this makes sense.

Gremmie · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:35 am

Are you talking about the new RN YA? So you are adding a custom field?

Since / is normally used to start regular expressions, and you want to match on /, I'd not use / and use, say #:

#^/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+/)*#

That says:

must start with /
then one or more sequence of letters, digits, or underscore, followed by a trailing /
above line repeated 0 or more times

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testy1 · Worker Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 139

thanks guys fro the response, that site is excellent techno