InfoPath Dev

Hello,

 I am looking to make a field allow all characters except the following

, " ' < > &

 So far I can only get it to check for the ,

 This is my pattern:    [^,]+

 all the other characters seem to be a special characters.  I tried using the syntax \<  or \&   etc... but infopath rejects that as an invalid pattern.

 is there a way to check for the characters " ' < > & in regular expressions?

 

Thanks,

-Bob

If you're just looking to put data validation on a text box, you can use the following expression as your check in InfoPath for these characters:

contains(., ",") or contains(., "&") or contains(., "'") or contains(., "<") or contains(., ">") or contains(., '"')

hmmm... This returns a true or false in the text field I'm typing in.  Is there a way to have a validation setup this way so that the user is notified that (s)he has typed in an illegal character?

I believe Anson is suggesting using that expression in the dialog where you set up the validation condition.

Yes Jimmy is correct.  For the text box, add data validation and as your condition use the expression I included above.

ahh.. very cool..  

 

Thanks