RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-11 Thread West, Jason
: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help Yes, Ben Forta did "Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes" and I can recommend it. There are also many resources available online. Just google "regular expressions" and the first few that come up look quite

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-10 Thread Dean H. Saxe
rce listing many of them (someday), if someone doesn't already know of one. /charlie http://www.carehart.org/blog/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean H. Saxe Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:09 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subjec

RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
y, August 10, 2006 11:09 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help Jason, First start with one of the RegEx in 10 minutes a day type books. I think there is one from Sams Publishing. If you want to be a serious geek, Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl from

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-10 Thread Steven Ross
.org Subject: Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help   I think what Dean is suggesting here is that it is wiser to validate both from the server and the client.  The server validation being more reliable than the client.  This is a well adopted paradigm and Dean helps us remember this.  Also, M

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-10 Thread Steven Ross
Thanks   JLW From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Teddy Payne Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 15:52 To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help   I think what Dean is suggesting here is that it is wiser to validate both from the serv

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-10 Thread Dean H. Saxe
W From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Teddy Payne Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 15:52 To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help I think what Dean is suggesting here is that it is wiser to validate both from the server and the clie

RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-10 Thread West, Jason
: Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help   I think what Dean is suggesting here is that it is wiser to validate both from the server and the client.  The server validation being more reliable than the client.  This is a well adopted paradigm and Dean helps us remember this.  Also, MITM = Man In

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-07 Thread Teddy Payne
I think what Dean is suggesting here is that it is wiser to validate both from the server and the client.  The server validation being more reliable than the client.  This is a well adopted paradigm and Dean helps us remember this.  Also, MITM = Man In The Middle, which is a type of attack that ca

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-07 Thread Dean H. Saxe
Say you want to find your string and its 10 to 12 characters in the hexadecimal character set. You can validate your data with: [A-F0-9]{10,12} This will match any hexadecimal number with a minimum of 10 chars and a maximum of 12. Its a positive way of doing data validation on your strin

re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Regex help

2006-08-07 Thread Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10
Thanks! The piece that I was missing was the not (^) :) Dean, this expression rereplace(mystring, "[^A-F0-9]", "", "all") filters out all the unwanted characters. What does "{min},{max}" do? Mischa. > actually he would need this: rereplace(string, "[^a-fA-F0-9]", "", all); On 8/7/06,