Validate 10-digit code -?

Classic Servoy
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Hi,
This didn’t seem to work:

if (vLocation_student == /^d{10}$/) { …

…where I’m looking for 10-digit numeric content like “0123456789”, which can have one or more leading zeroes.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks so much,
Don

2

Oops, nevermind…didn’t realize that I needed to use .match() !!

Don (newbie :) )

3

You can also use .test():

if (/\^d{10}$/.test(vLocation_student)) {
4

Thank you Joas.

Is it also possible to do the following? I ran into some trouble with the global method, when doing the .match() on a large string for US date validation.

var csisTest = ‘/^d{10}$/’ // placed in global method

if (globals.csisTest.test(vLocation_student)) { …

Thank you,
Don

5

So you want to save the regular expression in a global variable?

To do that, you shouldn’t use the quotes, because you now save it as a string instead of a regexp object.
Also, after looking at your regexp, I think the slash is in the wrong place.

This would be the right way to save the regexp:

var csisTest = /^\d{10}$/;

and then in your method you can do this:

if (globals.csisTest.test(vLocation_student)) { ....

Does that work?

6

Aha!

What I hadn’t understood was that I should not place quotes around it.

What I had was:

var ssidMatch = ‘/^\d{10}$/’;

but what you are saying is,

var ssidMatch = /^\d{10}$/;

…without the quotes.

Thanks so much,
Don