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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.infopathdev.com:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Newbie Questions</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/39.aspx</link><description>New to InfoPath? Search to see if your question has already been answered. If it has not, then ask it here or the appropriate topic forum.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)</generator><item><title>Re: How to Validate the number of Characters entered?</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/39947.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:28:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:39947</guid><dc:creator>Jimmy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/39947.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&amp;PostID=39947</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;To validate that a field has more than 1 character, just use the built-in validation options to mark it invalid if it is blank.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then click the &lt;em&gt;And&lt;/em&gt; button and change the dropdown to &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; to add an expression to mark it invalid if it is greater than 15 characters.&amp;nbsp; That expression would be something like:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;string-length(&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;XPath to field&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) &amp;gt; 15&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to Validate the number of Characters entered?</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/39943.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:28:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:39943</guid><dc:creator>Kevingunn</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/39943.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&amp;PostID=39943</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I have a field that needs to have 1 to 15 characters entered. is there a way to validate that the field has between 1 and 15 characters entered into it. It is not important what the characters are.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thank You,&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>