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Re: regular expression that allows all characters except , " ' < > &

bsieloff — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:48:13 GMT

ahh.. very cool..

Thanks

Re: regular expression that allows all characters except , " ' < > &

Anson Hidajat — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:40:51 GMT

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

Re: regular expression that allows all characters except , " ' < > &

Jimmy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:48:56 GMT

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

Re: regular expression that allows all characters except , " ' < > &

bsieloff — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:30:21 GMT

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?

Re: regular expression that allows all characters except , " ' < > &

Anson Hidajat — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:06:20 GMT

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(., '"')

regular expression that allows all characters except , " ' < > &

bsieloff — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:20:55 GMT

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