pattern matching, regular expressions

[johne417]

This is really odd...

<script language="javascript">

function checkCharacter(e) {

// \w+ any/repeating word character

validString=/\w+/;

if (!validString.test(e)) {
alert('false');
}
else {
alert('true');
}
}
</script>

<form action="" onSubmit="checkCharacter(this.testChar.value);" method="post">
<input type="text" name="testChar">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit">
</form>



So this should return false for any characters not in the \w, which means all non alpha-numeric characters. Normal strings work fine. Except when I put in any string with a _ (underscore) character, it returns false. \w shouldn't do that, right?

 

[johne417]

Ach, stupid error on my part, figgered it out. Disregard.