Stupid regex question

[youradds]

Hi,

This is driving me nuts

Basically - I **only** wanna allow a-zA-Z0-9_. and - in the filenames. Failing this, it needs to show an error. The code I came up with is:

	var regtest = /^[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+$/;
/*	var the_test = regtest.test("someÉÊÈËéêèëÏÌÎïìîÖÔÒöô foo bar.jpg");*/
	var the_test = regtest.test("somfoo bar.jpg");
			
	alert("the_test is " + the_test);

It doesn't seem to match quite right though

I'm a perl programmer, so maybe I've just got the regex or something not quite right for Javascript? (I know there are some subtle differences)

TIA

Andy

 

[feherke]

Hi

Your code works as expected : both tests return [tt]false[/tt]. ( Note the space in the second file name. If you remove all space characters from the names, the second test will return [tt]true[/tt], but the first keeps returning [tt]false[/tt] because the letters with diacritical marks. )


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[youradds]

Eugh man - knew it had to be something stupid. Thanks