check for numbers/letters in a string 1

[vivasuzi]

I have a form, and when it is submitted, I want to check that all text fields (name, city, state) are only letters, and all number fields (phone, zip) are only numbers. Is there some quick way to check that a field has only letters or only numbers?

I also want to be able to check that the fields don't have any chars besides letters and numbers.

I don't need a function written for me, I was hoping there was something in asp to do this. Any help is welcome *Suzanne*

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[onpnt]

try a search for regular expression alphanumeric validation
the patterns will be very basic and it will be a efficient way to do this onpnt
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[BG12424]

You can use the Regular Expression object to do pattern matching if you like. See the following article on 4guysfromrolla.com

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/031500-1.2.shtml

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[BG12424]

Well onpnt, I guess we were thinking the same thing at the same time....: ) ________________________________________________________________________
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[vivasuzi]

Okay except, I couldn't figure out what the regular expression would be for a space. Since cities can have a space in them, what would I write? I saw that \s recognizes "whitespace" but that includes tabs and things I don't want to include. Any suggestions?
*Suzanne*

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[onpnt]

how about taking them out???? onpnt
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[vivasuzi]

One more question. I'm trying to validate an email address. Is this a good way to do it or should I just use javascript? I'm not sure how to make the regular expression for that though. I tried something like

\w@\w.\w

but that didn't work. I think I just made that up But if you already know how to do it, or where I can look for how to do it, then any help is always welcome thanx. *Suzanne*

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[Tarwn]

There are a lot of sample regular expreszsion strings out there for things like validation of email or domain addresses.
Here is a link to validating email addresses using javascript or VBScript:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/052899-1.shtml

Also, to answer your earlier question, the space is not a special character in regular expressions, so though it looks wierd you can simply put a space in your expression for it to match spaces:

myRegExp.pattern = "abcd +dcba"

That will match a portion of a string that starts with abcd, has 1 or more spaces, and ends in dcba.

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[britbrian]

This regular expression works for me.
"^[\w-\.]{1,}\@([\da-zA-Z-]{1,}\.){1,}[\da-zA-Z-]{2,3}$"