Thanks Clemens this worked:
* Field('id_number', requires = IS_MATCH('^\d{9}?$',
error_message='An ID Number should have exactly 9 digits')), *
On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 9:41:45 PM UTC+2 Clemens wrote:
> The right link to the chapter in the web2py documentation is:
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#IS_MATCH
>
> On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 8:35:17 PM UTC+1 Clemens wrote:
>
>> I didn't test it, but this should do the job:
>> requires = IS_MATCH('^\w{1,9}$', error_message='must be 1 to 9
>> characters/digits')
>>
>> For further information about validators with regular expressions have a
>> look here:
>> http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07?search=formstyle#IS_MATCH
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 8:23:01 PM UTC+1 mostwanted wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a validator that could be used to limit the number of values
>>> that could be submitted in a form field? I want users to input their ID
>>> numbers but they cant be more than 9 characters, how do i achieve this?
>>>
>>
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