Check for Colon in Form Field

[weezerboy]

I have a form with 10 time fields. I need the user to input the time in military format like this 12:16.

The problem is users are entering the time WITHOUT THE COLON and its causing problems.

How can I check for the existance of a colon in these form fields.

I need the colon to be there before I go onto further processing.

PAT

[Newsgroup_User]

You could treat the field as a list and use the listFind function or use a
regular expression.

<cfif not listFind(nameOfField,':','')>
Throw some error
</cfif>

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"weezerboy" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have a form with 10 time fields. I need the user to input the time in
> military format like this 12:16.
>
> The problem is users are entering the time WITHOUT THE COLON and its
> causing
> problems.
>
> How can I check for the existance of a colon in these form fields.
>
> I need the colon to be there before I go onto further processing.
>
> PAT
>

[cf_dev2 · Accepted solution]

- Use <cfinput> with validate="time"
- Write your own javascript and CF functions to check for colon(s)

<cfif listLen(form.theField, ":") lt 2>
No colon found
</cfif>

[Guest]

can you break it into two fields? one for HH and one for MM?