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[jb4mt]

Here's another article I've written, hope it's helpful:

http://devpapers.com/article/259

[ChristsLittleFlock]

Hey, very nice article. I'll be changing soe of my javascript form validation around.

Do you know of any articles on javascript regular expressions? I know there is a regexp class in javascript; but I am not very familiar with the methods within it.

Brandon

[jb4mt]

Originally posted by ZapX Technologies
Hey, very nice article. I'll be changing soe of my javascript form validation around.

Do you know of any articles on javascript regular expressions? I know there is a regexp class in javascript; but I am not very familiar with the methods within it.

Brandon

Thanks glad it was helpful but sorry I don't know of any articles on Javascript regular expressions. Not to say there aren't any though, so I encourage you to google for some. There is a very good chapter on it in Flanagan's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide". You could view this online with a two week free trial at http://safari.oreilly.com

[deviations]

Hmm, when you mentioned regular expressions, I went to look in Jeffery Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions," and I saw Java only.

At least I can cope with learning regex in all the other languages listed in there.

[jb4mt]

Regular expressions should be pretty much the same across all languages. In fact I'm sure there must be more coverage in Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" than just Java. Because the first editions of that book came out before Java supported them.

Javascript's implementation of RegEx's is particularly close to Perl's. And I know there is a good chapter on them in the "Rhino" book (Flanagan's "Javascript: The Definitive Guide")

[af11kcc]

I found this article: http://tech.irt.org/articles/js049/ very useful.