Samuel,
You’re welcome. Feels good to be useful! :-D I can’t think of any situation where control characters are desirable. Cheers, Flavio > On 13/09/2016, at 13:03, Samuel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Flavio, > > Thank you, this works perfectly. > > It could be easily added to ERXWOTextField and WOText element by default... > > Is there any situation where control char would be desirable in a web text > input (except for the tab and new line) ? > > Samuel > > >> Le 13 sept. 2016 à 10:05, Flavio Donadio <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Samuel, >> >> >> The user might have copied from another app and pasted into the field. >> >> The solution is to strip control characters from the user input. As you may >> know, there are a lot of ways to do that and dependent on the use case. For >> example, if it’s a multiline text input control (textarea), you may want to >> keep certain characters like carriage returns, line feeds and tabs. >> >> One example of stripping all control characters using pure Java: >> >> String.replaceAll("\\p{Cntrl}", "”); >> >> … and one example of stripping every control character, except for CR, LF >> and TAB: >> >> String.replaceAll("[\\p{Cntrl}^\r\n\t]+", ""); >> >> I am sure NSString has methods for that... >> >> >> Cheers, >> Flavio >> >>> On 13/09/2016, at 09:40, Samuel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just encountered a strange error where a user managed to put a DEL char >>> inside a text field. This char raise an SQL Exception in the server. >>> >>> First, I really would like to know how they manage to do this ! I do not >>> even know how to put a DEL (code 127) inside text with the keyboard. I had >>> some case with other control char in the past too. >>> >>> Second, is there a wonder way to filter these or a Javascript method to >>> prevent them from the source, or any suggestion to handle this ? >>> >>> Real users are alway a source of unpredicted challenges. >>> >>> Thank, >>> >>> Samuel >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/flavio%40donadio.com.br >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
