Using javascript to validate password

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I wrote the following little validation routine to validate a password:

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Subject: Using javascript to validate password

Betsy,

This variation will work (you just need to tweak a bit):

Button code:

<input type=“Button” value=“submit” onClick=“if ( doSubmit(document.forms[0], true ) ) document.forms[0].submit();”

JSHeader:

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Subject: RE: Using javascript to validate password

Thanks alot… I got it to work. Really appreciate your help…

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Subject: RE: Using javascript to validate password

Not a problem. I had only worked with regular expressions once before and it was good to think about them again. My next goal is to get the code I posted into one line that works, though breaking it out may make it easier to customize the return message.

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Subject: RE: Using javascript to validate password

Well, I have another requirement…

the password needs to have at least one numeric or one special character (like ~!@#$%^&*())

I tried to add:

(?=\W*[~!@#$%^&*((])

but it didn’t work…

Any suggestions on how to modify my expression to allow a special character as opposed to a numeric character…

thanks in advance…

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Subject: RE: Using javascript to validate password

Almost all “special characters” are special in regular expressions as well – you need to escape them, so ^ becomes ^, etc.

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Subject: RE: Using javascript to validate password

actually, this code I just sent Betsy does work (except for checking the maximum 15 characters):

function doValidation(f)

{

alert (“starting validation”);

var pw = f.Password.value

var reg =/^.(?=.{8,15})(?=.[a-z])(?=.[A-Z])((?=.\d)|(?=.[~!@#$%^&()])).*$/;

if (!reg.test(pw))

 {

   alert(pw + " is an invalid password!");

   f.Password.focus();

   return false;

 }

}

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Subject: RE: Using javascript to validate password

Thank you thank thank you!!! From the bottom of my heart… I did try…

I was sort of close…

I worked on it all day…

Thanks so much… Wonderfull…