Published: Saturday, July 31, 1999
Checking a String for Certain Characters, Part 2
Read Checking a String for Certain Characters, Part 1
Last article I showed you how to validate a string for certain inputs using client-side JavaScript.
I am going to use the exact same approach for the server-side ASP script. The syntax is really
the only difference here.
Let me just reiterate our approach:
Know what characters you want to include; step through their form input one
character at a time and test to see if the current character is in the set of inclusive characters.
If it is not, then flag that the string is invalid.
Now, onto the code (available in text format at the end of this article...)!
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<% Option Explicit %>
<%
<![CDATA[
'Read in the username
Dim strUserName
strUserName = Request("UserName")
'Now, we need to validate the username.
'That is, it can only contain the following characters:
' A - Z
' a - z
' 0 - 9
' - (dash)
' _ (underscore)
'We are going to step through the string once character at a time.
Dim iStrPos, iLoop, strCurrentChar, bolValidString
For iLoop = 1 to Len(strUserName)
strCurrentChar = Mid(strUserName, iLoop, 1)
if strCurrentChar = "_" _ ' if we're on an underscore
or strCurrentChar = "-" _ ' or we're on a dash
or isNumeric(strCurrentChar) _ ' or we're on a number
or (Asc(UCase(strCurrentChar)) >= Asc("A") and _
Asc(UCase(strCurrentChar)) <= Asc("Z")) _ 'or we're on a number
then 'then we're on a valid character, do nothing
else 'but if we're not, the string is invalid!
bolValid = False
end if
Next
'Did we find a valid string?
if Not bolValid then
'Take them to a page explaining that they've entered an
'invalid username
Response.Redirect "InvalidUserName.htm"
end if
'Otherwise we can go ahead and do whatever processing we need to do! :)
'...
]]>
%>
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Pretty straight-forward. With the client-side validation, you don't need to make a round-trip to the
server to validate the UserName, so there's one advantage to using client-side code.
Read Checking a String for Certain Characters, Part 1
Attachments:
Code for Client-side JavaScript Validation in Text Format
Code for Server-side ASP Validation in Text Format
