Also, I don't think you need the initial ^.
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:25:11 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>
> I think your regular expression is only matching a single character.
> Instead, try:
>
> ^[a-z]+ # the + says to match one or more characters.
>
> You might want ^[a-zA-Z]+ to match upper or lower case.
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:41:00 AM UTC-4, Saurabh S wrote:
>>
>> hi i am developing a system in which i require a validation on name
>> field...validation shoould be : the field should not accept
>> numbers ...it should only accept alphabets...i know this is possible
>> using IS_MATCH in web2py...i tried using
>> db.organisations.name.requires=[IS_MATCH('^[a-z]',
>> error_message='This
>> is not a valid name')]
>> but it is not working
>> please help me out.....
>>
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