Francis Norton Francis Norton
Francis Norton works at iE (http//:www.ie.com), developing online retail finance applications in C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server 2005, with special interests in XML technologies, Powershell and mainframe integration. In an earlier life he contributed chapters to three Wrox books on XML. He's still trying to work out if he gets more satisfaction from solving problems or from explaining the solutions.
Implementing Real-World Data Input Validation using Regular Expressions
by Francis Norton | 14 May 2007 |  12 comments |
Francis Norton shows how to use regular expressions to fulfil some real world data validation requirements, demonstrating techniques ranging from simple number format checks, to complex string validation that requires use of regex's powerful "lookahead" feature. Read more...
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