> You could use a snippet... LOL... I had 2 simultaneous mixed responses to this:
1) Oooh oooh! ... wait ... nope, nevermind, you lost me... and 2) Now that's just silly. Isaac Dealey Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 > -----Original Message----- > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:21 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: regexp >> Not to mention isNumeric() in J's post is ... well, illegal. It already >> exist in CF and it'll throw an error. Heh, to bad we can overwrite those >> functions like you can in flash. ;) > Who's J? ... Yea, I knew it was illegal, it was just for the purpose of > the > jab. :) I could have said "function > IsReallyAndCertainlyAbsolutelyVeryDefini > telyNumericAndNothingElseYeaYeaImTheMidnightBomberWhatBombsAtMidnightYeaYe > a( > string)" ... though I'm not sure I'd want to type that very often. :) > Isaac Dealey > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > www.turnkey.to > 954-776-0046 >> ~Todd >> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Michael Dinowitz wrote: >>> Well, he asked for RegEx and I gave him RegEx. The IsNumeric is better >>> but I got directly into teaching mode. :) >>> >>> >>> > > Try this: >>> > > ^[0-9]+$ >>> > > A string must start (^) with a number ([0-9]), at least one number >>> > > must >>> > > exist (+) and the string ends after one or more numbers ($). >>> > >>> > >>> > Oooh oooh! ... >>> > >>> > function IsNumeric(string) { >>> > return yesnoformat(REFind("^[0-9]$",string)); >>> > } >>> > >>> > isnumeric("3") = yes >>> > usnumeric("3,000") = no >>> > >>> > Wow that would be useful... How come on one's thought of that before? >>> > :) >>> > >>> > Sorry Mike... just poking a little geeky fun at your expense. :) >>> > >>> > Although actually, if the field is supposed to be numeric you can make >>> > it a >>> > little easier on some of the slower ( mentally ) users by eliminate >>> > dollar >>> > signs, commas and decimals which are common formatting elements for >>> > money >>> > values... which can be done with regex, although I think I would >>> > probably >>> > wind up using replacelist >>> > >>> > >>> > Isaac Dealey >>> > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer >>> > >>> > www.turnkey.to >>> > 954-776-0046 >>> > >>> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
