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TV Text RegEx - not working

guategeek — Aug 25, 2015, 05:19 PM

I'm having no luck with the Regular Expression Validator on a Template Variable of the Text input type. I have used examples strait off of http://www.regexr.com/ to test them after I couldn't get my own ones to work and nothing. It always gives me the error, even with a string that validates on regexr.com and other regular expresion testers. Is this functionality broken? Do I have to write it diferently?

I have tried writing the expression with and without the leading and trailing /, with and without a g, for example:

\b\d{3}[-.]?\d{3}[-.]?\d{4}\b
/\b\d{3}[-.]?\d{3}[-.]?\d{4}\b/
/\b\d{3}[-.]?\d{3}[-.]?\d{4}\b/g

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

BobRay — Jul 08, 2018, 06:16 AM

I'm not sure that's still true. I haven't tested it lately, but there was a PR on this issue: https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/issues/13899

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

sepiariver — Jul 07, 2018, 10:22 PM

Whatever you put into the Input Options field "Regular Expression Validator" will be inserted into the JavaScript RegExp constructor:

new RegExp('{$params.regex}')

So a regex literal, example:

/^[\w]{11}$/

would need to be entered like this instead:

^[\\w]{11}$

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

Jako — Apr 10, 2017, 06:38 AM

Should be JavaScript, if the validation is done by ExtJS (not sure about this).

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

jcdm — Apr 10, 2017, 06:20 AM

Hi Jako - you mention there's a difference between the Javascript and (PCRE) PHP regex patters, but don't mention which one is used by the TVs - could you please elaborate if you know?

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

Jako — Jun 20, 2016, 01:47 AM

There are some differences between javascript and pcre (php) regular expressions.

On the page https://regex101.com/#javascript you could generate and test your regular expressions. After you have generated a valid expression, click on 'code generator' and the tool will escape the expression for you. Copy the properly escaped code of the tool without the delimiters to the regular expression field in MODX.

In your case it should be

\\b\\d{3}[\\-.]?\\d{3}[\\-.]?\\d{4}\\b

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

cageybee — Jan 31, 2016, 05:30 PM

Hi, you can use the following regexp:

[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{4}

It works well.

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

BobRay — Sep 04, 2015, 03:51 PM

It's quite possible. Almost no one uses it. I didn't have time to actually test it.

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

guategeek — Sep 04, 2015, 01:02 PM

Thanks for the explination and looking into this. I tried all of your examples the one without the delimiter as well as the 3 different kinds of delimiters and it still throws the validation error.

I also tried my previous example but with the correct escaping character [\-.] for the character class and that didn't work ether.

/\b\d{3}[\-.]?\d{3}[\-.]?\d{4}\b/

This obviously isn't anything I have knowledge about but I'm wondering if something is broken with MODX TV RegEx validation.

Re: TV Text RegEx - not working

BobRay — Aug 31, 2015, 06:13 PM

Testing in PhpStorm, none of those worked for me, but this did. The the / in your character class isn't escaping the hyphen (that would be \-), so the hyphen is defining a range. If you put the hyphen at the end of the character class, it doesn't need escaping.

\b\d{3}[.-]\d{3}[.-]\d{4}\b

The regexp code doesn't add a delimiter, so you'd have to add a delimiter to each end like this:

/\b\d{3}[.-]\d{3}[.-]\d{4}\b/

@\b\d{3}[.-]\d{3}[.-]\d{4}\b@

%\b\d{3}[.-]\d{3}[.-]\d{4}\b%

The code uses preg_match(), which doesn't take the /g modifier, so that will always cause an error. Withoug it, you'll only get the first match unless you write your own custom validator that uses preg_match_all().