Thanks -- I ended up creating a mask for the number of characters I need
then used a custom msg attribute to override the default make error. But I
could do the same with what you propose as well.
"David Graham"
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You could give the field a maxlength attribute and then use the minlength
validator to make sure it's the given number of characters.
David
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>Subject: restricting to a specific field length
>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:45:44 -0500
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>I want to validate a field that must be alphanumeric and must be a X
number
>of characters long. Is there a clean way to leverage the basic struts
>validators for this or does this have to be a custom validation?
>
>I know I could use a combination of the minlength and maxlength functions
>but this sounds like a sloppy way to go. I don't want to give them 2
error
>messages when I just want to say "Your field must be X characters" (as
>opposed to "Your field cannot be less than X" and/or"Your field cannot be
>greater than X").
>
>I could mask out to the desired number of characters but I want the error
>message to say something more meaningful than "The field is invalid".
>
>Any one deal with this before?
>
>Thanks!
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