Re: Regular Expression Help

From: Karl (_at_)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:24:42 -0400

Just so I'm clear, you want to limit on a certain character...such as 10 'a'
or more and it fails..but not necessarily in a row...so like
abaaaaacasaaaaaadasdsa would fail 'cuz in the totallity of the string there
are more than 10 'a'?

Karl 

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"tmeister" <tmeister@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C44F1C1-E097-449B-914F-BC306D9A57A1@microsoft.com...
> Part of the problem is that I have a web application that builds forms
> dynamically.  I then allow for validation routines for the given controls.
> For validation the system allows for multiple regular expressions for each
> control if needed and the form.  When someone posts their data I loop
through
> all of the controls and then pull their specific validation requirements
from
> the database.
>
> Let me know if you know what the regular expression would be to limit X
> number of characters in a string.
>
> Thanks
>
> "Karl" wrote:
>
> > Todd,
> > I'm almost positive you'll be better off going ToCharArray() and looping
> > through the char array....something like:
> >
> > public static bool HasTooManyOfASingleCharacter(string source, char
> > character, int max) {
> >    char[] array = source.ToCharArray();
> >    int count = 0;
> >    for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; ++i ){
> >       char c = array[i];
> >       if (c == character){
> >          ++count;
> >          if (count > max){
> >             return true;
> >          }
> >       }
> >    }
> >    return false;
> > }
> >
> >
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> > "tmeister" <tmeister@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2F281AEA-4CD7-4762-BFCB-5F704BE88463@microsoft.com...
> > > I am in need of a regular expression that tests and fails if there are
14
> > or
> > > more of a character in the test string.  There can be up to 13 of
these
> > > characters in the string and any other characters, but at the 14th of
this
> > > character it should fail.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Todd Meister
> >
> >
> >

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