Developing a simple validation library in JavaScript - Validation for single digit or single alphabet: another way
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This sections deals with an alternative way to accomplish the same task we did in the previous section. Take a look at the following code:
<html>
<head>
<script id="clientEventHandlersJS" language="javascript">
<!--
function isSingleDigit(val){
if(val==null){return false;}
if (val.length==0 || val.length>1){return false;}
if ((val.charAt(0) >= "0") && (val.charAt(0) <= "9")) {return true;}
return false;
}
function Button1_onclick() {
var v = document.all("txtName").value;
alert(isSingleDigit(v));
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1">
Enter single digit:<input type="text" id="txtName" NAME="txtName"> <input type="button" value="Validate" id="Button1"
name="Button1" onclick="return Button1_onclick()">
</form>
</body>
</html>
The above code is very similar to the one presented in the previous section, except for the following function.
function isSingleDigit(val){
if(val==null){return false;}
if (val.length==0 || val.length>1){return false;}
if ((val.charAt(0) >= "0") && (val.charAt(0) <= "9")) {return true;}
return false;
}
The above function simply accepts any value (as a parameter value) into the variable “val”. The first “if” statement in the function “isBlank” simply checks for “null”. The second “if” statement in the same function counts the number of characters available. If no characters are found or if it finds more than one, it returns “false”.
The third “if” statement tries to check the first character (the character present at the 0th location) for its existence between “0” and “9”. The logic hidden behind this range is available from ASCII codes.
In a similar fashion, to check for a single alphabet, we can rewrite the above function as follows:
function isSingleAlphabet(val){
if(val==null){return false;}
if (val.length==0 || val.length>1){return false;}
if ((val.charAt(0) >= "a") && (val.charAt(0) <= "z") || (val.charAt(0) >= "A") && (val.charAt(0) <= "Z")) {return true;}
return false;
}
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