cfinput validation or mask?

[tech_guy77]

Let me preface this with I am a newbie when it comes to ColdFusion.

I have a cfinput textbox that I want enforce the the entry of a six digit number or the word 'prospect', but nothing else.

How can I go about doing this?

Thanks

EDIT: Server is CF8

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

You could use the regular expression validation feature of CFINPUT.

[Dan_Bracuk]

Definetly not a mask.  Probably custom js.

[meensi]

Hi,

If you want to restrict the user to enter only 6 characters, you could use " maxLength " attribute.

You could also use a Javascript function in this attribute "onValidate"; first get the first character, if its a number, check for the length (6) and loop through it for the length and check for each character is a number, or if its a word, check for PROSPECT.

[Adam Cameron.]

Yikes!  That'd be a lot of unnecessary work.

One can just use the native <cfinput> functionality to perform a regex validation for that.

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Adam

[meensi]

Yes Adam, but he wants either one of these , a six digit number or a word PROSPECT, in this regEx will work??

Im sorry if i m wrong.

[Adam Cameron. · Accepted solution]

I wouldn't've suggested it if it wouldn't work 😉

prospect|(?:\d{6})

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Adam

[tech_guy77]

Works great!

Thanks

[Adam Cameron.]

Cool.  Do you understand how the regex works?  I do kinda try not to give the actual answers here so people can work through the solution for themselves, but the preceeding poster kinda forced my hand a bit by questioning whether what I was saying was accurate.

If you're not already familiar with regexes, it'd be good, perhaps, if you nutted out why this is approach works.  But, obivously, it's up to you 😉

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Adam

[meensi]

I hope the preceding poster is ME.

I work through it Adam...