Yes Javascript.  In our instance PIN must be at least 9 digits long and
numeric.  There is no maximum length and we want to encourage longer PIN's.
Thanks for the help!


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:34 AM, David Landry <dlan...@byu.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:33 AM, David Landry <dlan...@byu.net> wrote:
>
> > There's a little bit of redundancy in there. Also, there's no length
> > requirement (e.g. isPIN('') also returns true).
> >
> > Without adding length requirements, I'd do it like this:
> >
> >   function isPIN(str) {
> >     return /^\+?(\d*)$/.test(str);
> >   }
> >
> > With a length requirement, it might look like this (if PINs must be 4
> > numbers long, {a,b} for a range from a to b length):
> >
> >   function isPIN(str) {
> >     return /^\+?(\d{4})$/.test(str);
> >   }
> >
>
> Ooops, missed this cruft, the \+? is redundant too. So,
>
>   function isPIN(str) {
>     return /^(\d{4})$/.test(str);
>   }
>
>
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> David Landry
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