Validation

[siuk]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out?

I want to be able to validate a user given value. This value is a cash value.

I want the user to be able to input for example $5 in 2 different ways -

1 - 5
2 - 5.00

Does anyone have a piece of code or a link to help me?

Many Thanks

Simon

 

[IanDunn]

You could just split the input value at the ".", and take the first part of the returned array as the dollar amount

example of use given:

<script language=javascript>
var amount=&quot;5.00&quot;
splits=amount.split(&quot;.&quot
var dollars=splits[0]
document.write(dollars)
</script>

Ian

 

[toolkit]

Or use someting like:

function checkAmount( element ) {
    var amount = element.value;
    if( amount.match( /\d+(\.\d{2})?/ ) ) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

I can't check this at the moment, but I think it should work. Cheers, Neil s-)