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validation and regexp sintax

dariopiazzadariopiazza Posts: 4 ✭
edited March 2014 in Study Build, Rules, and CRFs
hi to all, 
I ask for help because I can not run the validation function in a field that must contain the initials of the patient in the format "nn" (name) and "ss" (surname). 
I use the syntax: regexp: /[A-z]{2}/ 
Unfortunately, however, if that field is filled in with numbers or letters with numbers greater than 3, I can not display the validation error message expected. 

can someone help me?
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  • tdpurnattdpurnat Posts: 126 ✭
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    Hi,

    You mean that you only want to allow exactly two lower case letters? I
    think your mix of capital and lowercase letters is not making it work.

    I'm not a regex wiz, but this would be a crude way of doing it. If someone
    would write three letters for example, it would still match up the two
    letters.

    regexp: /[a-z][a-z]/

    or

    regexp: /[a-z]{2}/


    I find this tool below useful for testing my regular expressions:
    http://regexpal.com/
  • tdpurnattdpurnat Posts: 126 ✭
    Sorry, I just realized that you were asking to use a regex to validate that the answer is exactly 2 characters long.

    I'd recommend that you use javascript for validating the length of a string field. see example here:
    http://www.trialdatasolutions.com/tds/howto/charcount.jsp


  • GerbenRienkGerbenRienk Posts: 838 ✭✭✭
    Hello Dario,
    Can you explain a bit more what it is you want and preferably give some examples of valid and non-valid entries?
    Both your own solution and Tina's suggestions look OK to me.
    Many thanks,

    Gerben Rienk
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