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Re: ScreenName validation

From Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: ScreenName validation
Date 2013-01-11 03:38 +0100
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On 2013-01-11 02:23, Jeff North wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:28:22 +0100, in comp.lang.javascript Eric
> Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
> <m28v807ec9.fsf@nntp.bednarz.nl> wrote:
> 
>>| Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> writes:
>>| 
>>| >     /^[a-z\.\_\-]{2,12}$/
>>| 
>>| Uh, what's up with all those backslashes?
> 
> The dot ( .* ) and hyphen ( [a-Z] ) characters are used within regexp.
> To check for the actual characters they need to be escaped (preceded
> with backslash).

Not in a character class (the hyphen may need to be escaped if it's not
at the start or end of the class). /^[a-z._-]{2,12}$/ does exactly the same.

Last time I checked, JSLint required the redundant backslash escapes for
some reason.

- stefan

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ScreenName validation "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-08 10:44 -0700
  Re: ScreenName validation Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-01-08 11:02 -0800
    Re: ScreenName validation "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-01-08 13:05 -0700
    Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-11 01:28 +0100
      Re: ScreenName validation Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-01-11 12:23 +1100
        Re: ScreenName validation Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 03:38 +0100
        Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-11 20:35 +0100
          Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-11 21:22 +0100
            Re: ScreenName validation Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 22:09 +0100
              Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-11 23:23 +0100
                Re: ScreenName validation Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-01-12 00:26 +0100
                Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-12 00:54 +0100
              Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-12 00:22 +0100
          Re: ScreenName validation Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-01-11 13:29 -0800
            Re: ScreenName validation Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-01-12 02:31 +0100

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