Pierre. I think that Validator 1.3 relies on Jakarta ORO for its regular
expression parsing. You need to visit that project and see if it can do what
you want.
With that said, Validator 1.4 is based on JDK 1.4 and can use the native
Java regex engine.
Do any of these engines do what you need?
Paul
On Dec 8, 2007 12:45 PM, Pierre Thibaudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Well, it seems my question got people stumped as much as I am!
>
> For an alternative solution, I would love advice on a (working) regex
> expression that would approximate the class of characters I am aiming at:
> say all the letters of the Latin1 set (ISO-8859-1). If we could
> eventually
> supplement that with Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, that
> would probably cover more than all the ground I need.
>
> 2007/12/6, Pierre Thibaudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > I am using Struts 1 (more specifically 1.3.8).
> >
> > I have a form for which I use the Struts Validator.
> >
> > One of the textual fields should be able to accept any alphabetic
> > character, as well as spaces and apostrophes.
> > By "alphabetic characters", I don't merely mean [a-zA-Z], but I am also
> > interested in:
> > e acute,
> > a umlaut,
> > omega,
> > aleph,
> > and (while we're at it) Sanskrit characters.
> > But I want neither Arabic numerals, nor signs of punctuation (other than
> > the apostrophe), nor tabs, nor underscores, etc.
> >
> > I thought this might do it (but it doesn't work):
> >
> > <field property="name" depends="mask">
> > <msg name="mask" key="error.nameMask"/>
> > <var><var-name>mask</var-name><var-value>^[\p{L}\'
> > ]*$</var-value></var>
> > </field>
> >
> > The symbol "\p{L}" (which means "any Unicode letter" in Java regex)
> > doesn't seem to do its job...
> >
> > Suggestion anyone?
> >
>
