
carpedout
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Dec 5, 2001, 9:59 PM
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limit and replace characters
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I need to verify data as input into a form field. The criteria is: any alphabetical letter, numeral, the dash or the underscore character is OK FINE - but periods, symbols, leading or trailing whitespace, and other punctuation must be removed (stripped out totally leaving valid characters only) so: "ab-cd_ef" would be OK as is but: " Ab._@c,D. -!'ï_g1" would become "ab_cd-ef_g1" (lower case) whitespace between characters would be replaced with an underscore _ , but leading or trailing whitespace would be stripped totally so: "ab cd" woud become "ab_cd" and to make it trickier - the first and last characters cannot be anything other than a numeral or alpha character - so: "_abcd123-" even though it contained all valid characters, would need to become "abcd123" I admit - this is way over my head. I appreciate all assistance and explanations so I might learn something from this little problem.
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