I agree. Sometimes I think stripping should be a default for non-text, non-blob fields. Pros/cons?
On Oct 10, 7:52 am, devnull <[email protected]> wrote: > (re-posting since I think my previous message went to just one person) > > Is there an option or a validator that will strip whitespace before > applying remaining validators for a given field on a form? > > Somewhat related: I tried the CLEANUP validator but the resulting > variable still had characters like !...@#%^ in it. Maybe I mis-understood > its purpose... perhaps it strips special characters for the other > validators, but then when everything is done the original typed value > gets sent? It would be cool if there were a validator that took a > regex or a list of characters and stripped those from the input (so a > phone field might ignore everything except digits). > > I checked the documentation and for some reason the source code has > strike-out markup over > it.http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/epydoc/web2py.gluon.validat... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
