Yes, This works exactly how i intended to.
The Validator Raises error when it does'nt match now.
And i did eliminate the .*$ which dint make much of a difference.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers
Arun.
On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 12:35:42 PM UTC+5:30, Stephen Butler wrote:
>
> You can't provide multiple regex's to the RegexField. What you were doing
> before is exactly equivalent to this:
>
> r'^.*(?=.{8,})(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!$%^&*?@#-_+=]).*$'
>
> So for my suggestion, just do this:
>
>
> regex_f=r'^.*(?=.{{{MIN},{MAX}}})(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!$%^&*?@#-_+=]).*$'
>
> But the "^.*" and the ".*$" are not needed since RegexField uses
> RegexValidator, which uses re.search().
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Arun S <arun...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> I Did try this, i think i am not doing it right:
>> Could you tell what is that i am doing is wrong.
>> I am now not able to provide multiple Regex in the forms.RegexField using
>> the above method.
>>
>>
>>
>> regex_f=r'^.*(?=.{{{MIN},{MAX}}})(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!$%^&*?@#-_+=])'
>> old_password = forms.RegexField(
>> label='Old Password',
>> widget=ShowPasswordWidget(),
>>
>> *regex = regex_f.format(MIN=settings.PASSWORD_MIN_LEN,
>> MAX=settings.PASSWORD_MAX_LEN) r'.*$',*
>> error_messages={'invalid' : 'Password must contain at least 8
>> characters'
>> ' with one upper case letter, one lower case letter,'
>> ' one number (0-9) and one special character (!$%^&*?@#-_+=)'})
>>
>> Previously i was using this as:
>> -----
>> old_password = forms.RegexField(
>> label='Old Password',
>> widget=ShowPasswordWidget(),
>>
>>
>> *
>> regex=r'^.*(?=.{8,})(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!$%^&*?@#-_+=])'
>> r'.*$', * error_messages={'invalid' : 'Password
>> must contain at least 8 characters'
>> ' with one upper case letter, one lower case letter,'
>> ' one number (0-9) and one special character (!$%^&*?@#-_+=)'})
>>
>> On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 11:26:58 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen Butler wrote:
>>>
>>> I think I'd just use format() on the regex, being careful to escape '{'
>>> and '}':
>>>
>>> regex_f=r'^.*(?=.*{{{MIN},{MAX}}}*)(?=.*\d)(?
>>> =.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!$%^&*?@#-_+=])'
>>> regex=regex_f.format(MIN=settings.MY_RE_MIN, MAX=settings.MY_RE_MAX)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Arun S <arun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a Regular Expression something like this:
>>>> regex=r'^.*(?=.*{8,}*
>>>> )(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[!$%^&*?@#-_+=])'
>>>> r'.*$',
>>>>
>>>> In this, i would like to read the values from the Django Setting file
>>>> on the Max and Min Length and provide them as my input instead of Hard
>>>> Coding.
>>>>
>>>> How can a Variable be provided/escaped in a regex.
>>>> Can some one throw some light on this ?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Arun
>>>>
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