I am coding with Visual studio 2003 using .NET 1.1
I hope this is an appropriate group for this question. I am new to .NET and
have been given a project where I need to validate and confirm a password. I
understand that \w will match any word so long as it does not contain
whitespace.I have also foud out that \w=[a-zA-Z_0-9]. In my project I use a
reg ex validator to validate the password as all lower caps and a compare
validator to compare the confirm against the password. Unfotuneately, I am
not sure how to express all lower caps so I always get a validation errorfrom
the regex val. I have the compare validator working and returning an error
when it doesn't match the password.
For the reg ex validator I tried: [^a-z$] --:but it didn't work.
Isn't [^a-z$] looking for a string from a to z?
Then I simplifiled the expression to [^a-z] with no change in the outcome.
Now I have it as [a-z] and it still says the error message every time.
If I include a requiredfield validator for the username the compare
validator doesn't work even when I enter a user name
Please help if you can.

"TJ Hatch" <TJHatch (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Hi,

It is generally a bad idea to RESTRICT the values of a password, but I will
assume you have good reason for doing so (eg, integration with a REALLY OLD
backend system).

Having said that, you should just use:

^[a-z]+$

^ = Start of string
[a-z] = Any letter
+ = One or more times
$ = End of string

Peter

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