Phone Number Validation

[Jim Ault]

On 2/15/06 2:35 PM, "Jeff Honken" <jhonken at x12.info> wrote:
> Jim,
>   I must be missing something.  I saw that in the Docs but I couldn't
> get it to work.  Here's my code:  Can you see why it won't validate a
> 000-0000 ?  Jeff 

First, realize that matchText is a FUNCTION.
--as are matchChunk &  replaceText
--'replace' is a command, as are 'put, get, delete'

Second, decide what variables you want to end up with and use parens in
accordance.  In the docs it shows 'areacode' & 'phone'

As result, try using either the first technique or the second one

------------ first -------------
get matchText( pPhoneToCheck, "(regExpr)-( regExpr)", areacode, phone)
answer it -- should be 'true'
--thus the matchText FUNCTION does two things
--  1 returns a true/false so you can test success
--  2 puts the value in parenthesis into each variable name supplied

answer areaCode & cr & phone & cr "do what you want with these"

------------ second -------------
This would be the syntax I would use to make things a bit easier:

put "([0-9]+)-([0-9]+-[0-9]+)" into regEx
get matchText( pPhoneToCheck, regEx, areacode, phone)
answer it
answer areaCode & cr & phone & cr "do what you want with these"

HTH
Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 2/15/06 2:35 PM, "Jeff Honken" <jhonken at x12.info> wrote:

> Jim,
>   I must be missing something.  I saw that in the Docs but I couldn't
> get it to work.  Here's my code:  Can you see why it won't validate a
> 000-0000 ?  Jeff
> 
> --> Function
> function CheckPhone pPhoneToCheck
>       
>     if pPhoneToCheck is
> matchText(pPhoneToCheck,"([0-9]+)-([0-9]+-[0-9]+)")
>    
>     then
>     return pPhoneToCheck
>   else
>     return "Bad Phone"
>   end if
> end CheckPhone
> -->End of Function
> 
> 
> --> Field Text
> on closeField
>   
>   put CheckPhone(me) into Ewr
>    
>   if Ewr is "Bad Phone" then
>     answer "The Telephone Number you entered must be in the format of
> 000-000-0000"
>     put "" into me
>     focus on me
>     break
>     
>   ELSE
>      
>     Answer "OK Good Number"
>      
>   END IF 
> end closeField
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Jim Ault
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:01 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Phone Number Validation
> 
> On 2/15/06 9:33 AM, "Jeff Honken" <jhonken at x12.info> wrote:
>> I'm trying to validate a date.  I've been playing with the below code
>> but I can't get it to verify a correct phone number.  Can anyone steer
>> me in the correct direction on how to verify a phone number in a field
>> for the correct format?  Jeff
> 
>> From the docs
> matchText function
> 
> Platform support:
> Introduced in version 1.0 (Changed in version 2.0)
> 
> Returns true if a regular expression is found in the specified string,
> false
> otherwise.
> 
> matchText(string,regularExpression[,foundTextVarsList])
> 
> matchText("Goodbye","bye") -- returns true
> matchText("Goodbye","^Good") -- also returns true
> matchText(phoneNumber,"([0-9]+)-([0-9]+-[0-9]+)",areaCode,phone)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 
> On 2/15/06 9:33 AM, "Jeff Honken" <jhonken at x12.info> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to validate a date.  I've been playing with the below code
>> but I can't get it to verify a correct phone number.  Can anyone steer
>> me in the correct direction on how to verify a phone number in a field
>> for the correct format?  Jeff
>> 
>> --> Function
>> function CheckPhone pPhoneToCheck
>>   if pPhoneToCheck is
>> 
> matchText(pPhoneToCheck,"([0-9][0-9][0-9])-([0-9][0-9][0-9])-([0-9][0-9]
>> [0-9][0-9])")
>>     then
>>     return pPhoneToCheck
>>   else
>>     return "Bad Phone"
>>   end if
>> end CheckPhone
>> -->End of Function
>> 
>> 
>> --> Code in Filed
>> on closeField
>> 
>> put CheckPhone(me) into Ewr
>>    
>>   if Ewr is "Bad Phone" then
>>     answer "The Telephone Number you entered must be in the format of
>> 000-000-0000"
>>     put "" into me
>>     focus on me
>>     break
>>     
>>   ELSE
>>      
>>     Answer "OK Good Number"
>>      
>>   END IF 
>> end closeField
>> 
>> 
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