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  1. How to allow hyphen (-) in validation frame work (1 messages)

    Hi!
    I am using the validation frame work with sturts, to validate the input field for address I had given the mask in validation.xml as below:

    <field property="address" depends="required,mask">
    <arg0 key="agentProfileForm.address.NotEntered"/>
    <var>
      <var-name>mask</var-name>
      <var-value>^[0-9a-zA-Z ',/#---]*$</var-value>
    </var>
    </field>

    My intention of using 2 hyphens (---) in the mask is to allow the character '-' as a valid value, but when I do this special chracters like @,#,$ etc are also considered as valid characters.

    How to allow hyphen '-' as a valid character?

    Thanks in advance.

    bye
    RamPrasad.
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  2. In a normal regexp...[ Go to top ]

    ...you have to use \- to escape the -.

    Hope that helps,

    René Zanner
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