The solution was elsewhere. negative regular expressions are fine. Sorry for the spam.
----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 2:31 am Subject: Re: Validor has a problem with negative expressions > By the way in this I use the expanded forms of & g t ; and & l t > ; minus the spaces, but you can't see them on the page below. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 2:28 am > Subject: Validor has a problem with negative expressions > > > > > I have the validator working doing some fairly complex field > > validations, but I am having a problem with what I think should > be > > a trivial thing. > > > > I am trying to create an expression where you get all but html > > types of characters. I have tried variations, but can't seem to > > get this to work. > > > > <constant> > > <constant-name>requiredHtmlRestricted</constant-name> > > <constant-value>^[^<^>]+$</constant-value> > > </constant> > > > > I would expect this to allow me to capture all characters except > > the less then and greater then sign according to > > http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/apidocs/ RE description and > > elsewhere. > > It does not work. > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
