regex and wildcards in user name - Posted (1200 Views)
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Etymon
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You know how wildcards are not allowed in the username such below?
* You may not use any of these chars in your username !#$%^&*()=+{}[]|\;:/?>,<'

Is there a regex expression that will do the same thing? The regex expressions I find still allow certain wildcards like #%+
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HuwR
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what exactly did you want the regex to do ?
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Etymon
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I'm trying to pre-filter member names using auto-complete with jQuery.
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Well, I am having a little bit of trouble still finding the regex I would like to use.
I did find something that prevents characters from being entered which is actually better, but, alas, I don't know how it is done.
Would someone mind taking a look at the first text box on this page (http://www.ajaxcontroltoolkit.com/FilteredTextBox/FilteredTextBox.aspx) where it says Only digits are allowed here:? Try typing in anything other than a number, and you will see what I am talking about. The character is rejected and cleared before it is accepted. I'd like to do that with this combination:

alphanumeric space underscore

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Etymon
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I found this: http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-num-or-char.html
Though it's not as clean as the one I was asking about, it will work for now. smile
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Etymon
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Well, that is interesting.
The link above is supposed to look something like this (the area in red should have been included in the link above):

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-num-or-char.html
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Etymon
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OK, this works when posted directly:

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-num-or-char.html

And this does not work when posted using the [ url ] [ /url ] tags:

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-num-or-char.html
Rui? HuwR? Guys?
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Carefree
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Originally posted by Etymon
OK, this works when posted directly:

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-num-or-char.html

And this does not work when posted using the [ url ] [ /url ] tags:

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/val-num-or-char.html
Rui? HuwR? Guys?

Go look at the bugs forum. I posted a fix to that last year.
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some of the characters you are trying to reject won't work in a regex smile as they are special control characters used by regex itself, which may be why you are having a problem.
the word javascript is being filtered out of the url by the forum code (this was deliberate) smile
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Ah! Yes, the regex is interesting. I found a javascript to help out with that.
The link thing. I shoulda' looked before I leaked on that. Thanks Huw! Thanks Carefree!
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