Help with special characters please..

[macmac1]

I am trying to through a erro if the user puts a special character in a form field. I have some code that works great but it saying a blank space is a invalid charachter. here is the code that is buggin...

function zipcheck() {
var mikExp = /[!\?\$\\@\\\#%\^\&\*\(\)\[\]\+\_\{\}\`\~\=\|\'\:\;\""\ ]/;
if(the_form.zip.value.search(mikExp) != -1)
{
alert("Sorry, but the following characters\n\r\n\r@ $ % ^ & * # ( ) [ ] \\ { + } ` ~ = | : ; ! ? ' \n\r\n\rare not allowed!\n"
the_form.zip.focus();
return false;
}
}

 

[Boomerang]

Hi macmac1,

I don't understand the code but if I take a "logical" look maybe it's because you end with: \ ]

Maybe the functions see this as \space]

Further I see some "proberbly" mistakes?:
- I miss the underscore "_" in the list Sorry, but the ...."
- Is this ...\\@\\\#%... OK , shouldn't it be something like ...\@\\\#\%... (again , I don't understand the code but I can think a bit what is does, but maybe I'm totaly wrong)

I hope this helps you a bit,
Erik
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