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String Validation

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/*
JavaScript Unleashed, Third Edition
by Richard Wagner and R. Allen Wyke 

ISBN: 067231763X
Publisher Sams CopyRight 2000

*/
<html>
<head>
<title>String Validation</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--begin script
function isString(textObj) {
   var newValue = textObj.value;
   var newLength = newValue.length;
   var extraChars=". -,";

   var search;
   for(var i = 0; i != newLength; i++) {
      aChar = newValue.substring(i,i+1);
      aChar = aChar.toUpperCase();
      search = extraChars.indexOf(aChar);
      if(search == -&& (aChar < "A" || aChar > "Z") ) {
         return false;
      }
   }
   return true;
}
// end script-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>String Validation</h1>
<form name="form1">
<input type="text"
   size=16
   maxlength=16
   name="data">
<input type="button"
   name="CheckButton"
   value="Validate"
   onClick="document.form1.result.value = '' +
    isString(document.form1.data)">
<br>
Result 
<input type="text"
   size=16
   maxlength=16
   name="result">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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