It actually depends on where the "." is in the Regexp. In your case it is inside a Character Class "[]". So it is matching the "." character explicitly. Since \w is shorthand for the [a-zA-Z] character class. It is parsed as a character class instead of an escaped "w" character. So you could actually change the character class to be %r|[-\w_./]|. No need to further escape the "_", or "-" since it is at the beginning of the class (That's for another reason though).
On Dec 19, 10:12 am, AlwaysCharging <goodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, that did it. Thank you. > No idea how I try everything and overlook the simplest solution, duh. > > And, Thank you to everyone else that weighed in as well, definitely > some other options to look into. > > Side note: Anybody know why the period doesn't have to be escaped? > Like just "." allows the dot to be input, as well as "\." > So, [-\w\_\.\/] works just as [-\w\_.\/]. Why is this? > > On Dec 19, 3:41 am, frogstarr78 <frogstar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Have you tried escaping them "\/"? > > > On Dec 18, 11:01 pm, AlwaysCharging <goodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In my app, I allow users to submit urls. They (of course) need the > > > ability to submit urls with a forward slash, "/", but whats the > > > regular expression to allow them to do that? > > > > I currently use: > > > > validates_format_of :url, :with => /^[-\w\_.]+$/i > > > > to only allow alphanumerics, dashes, underscores, and dots to prevent > > > cross site scripting when I later reconstruct these urls, but I can't > > > figure out how to allow "/" as well. > > > > Any ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
