Regex in CFIF 1

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How does one put a regular expression in a CFIF statement? I'm looking to do form validation and, for example, want to limit the input on a certain field to
[0-9][0-9][A-Z][A-Z] (nnAA). In other words, custom masks.

Thanks oh brilliant ones.



Cheers,

Bluetone

 

[johk02]

What I have done is to use ReFind (or whatever is suitable).
<cfif IsDefind("Form.field")>
<cfif NOT Refind("regex, Form.field")
action if False
</cfif>
</cfif>

I am sure it must be better ways

Jonas

 

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That works extremely well. I'll post my working code here for anyone doing a search later.

<CFIF NOT REFind("[0-9][0-9][A-Z][A-Z]", "#FORM.SLocation#")>
<CFLOCATION URL="Error3.cfm">
</CFIF>

This checks the field input (FORM.SLocation). If it is two numbers followed by two letters processing continues. If not, users are redirected to another page - error2.cfm.

Thanks much John

Cheers,

Bluetone