PS: and Ben's needs to be adjusted to allow numbers:
^$|^[\w\d]{17}$
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/
On 10/06/2009 23:15, Rick Mason wrote:
> Andy,
>
> I jumped the gun a little too quickly. Neither yours nor Ben's works. Your
> code worked fine when I was just typing in numbers for a quick test.
>
> Once I started testing with actual VIN numbers it failed. It isn't counting
> the letters in the total count. So 12345678901234567 succeeds but
> 1M345678901234567 fails.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Rick
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Andy Matthews
> <li...@commadelimited.com>wrote:
>
>> [ ]|[a-z0-9]{17}
>>
>> Should do it...
>>
>> That basically allows for a space, or for 17 alphanumeric characters.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rick Mason [mailto:rhma...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:50 AM
>> To: cf-talk
>> Subject: Simple regex question
>>
>>
>> I'm in need of some regex help. I am working with a cfinput and I need a
>> pattern for regex validation that does the following:
>>
>> Field can be blank but if filled out has to be exactly 17 characters which
>> are a combination of letters and numbers (VIN number)
>>
>> Know this is simple but Google seems to be failing me this morning.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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