regex fails

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all,

I have the following line in my model:

validates_format_of :postal_code, :with => /\d{4}\s*[a-zA-Z]{2}/, :on => :create

However this still does allow me to create a postal code such as:

5444 ABC

which is incorrect, because it should only be allowed if two characters are supplied at the end.

In java the same regex is working, what am I doing wrong here?

Regards,

Harm

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Add ^ at the beginning and $ - at the end:

validates_format_of :postal_code, :with => /^\d{4}\s*[a-zA-Z]{2}$/, :on => :create

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Your expression looks fine, but you can’t expect all parsers to behave identically. You might try doing [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z].

Jose

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Jose Hales-Garcia

UCLA Department of Statistics

jose@stat.ucla.edu

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Thanks Maxim,

That seemed to be it!

Regards,

Harm!