paulchwd

Hello All,

I am rather new to regular expressions. I have this regualr expression to check if the number entered is between 1 and 366:

var regVal= new RegularExp("^[1-366]$");

from everything i've read it seems to work but it only works on certain numbers and says most other numbers are wrong

I have attached my code.

it seems to me that the expression is formed incorectly, beacue when i printed the result of

regVal.test(document.f1.duration.value)

to the screen it is actually deeming those numbers (for example 4) as not a match, so its not the if block or alert statement misfiring.

if you could take a look at my code that would be very helpfull, its very short code.. and this is driving me bonkers...lol

thanks in advance


code:
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function val2()
{

var regVal;

regVal= new RegExp("^[1-366]$");

if (!regVal.test(document.f1.duration.value))
{

alert('Please enter a duration between 1 and 366 days');
document.write (regVal.test(document.f1.duration.value));

//pls note the above line prints the result of the match to the screen . Every time the alert text says the match was false it really was false, not just a misfire of the alert text.


}

}