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  • value - the value being submitted to the server; this can be changed by the event
  • fieldName - the name of the field being modified
  • dataType - the field data type
  • dataLength - data length (only present if the field is a character or a numeric field)
  • formatting - field formatting

Example:

The following code looks for invalid characters in all character input fields.

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javascript
javascript

pui.validate = function(obj) {
  var invalidRegExp = new RegExp("[^A-Za-z0-9`-~!@#\\$%\\^&\\*\\(\\)_\\+\\{\\}\\[\\]\\|\\\\:;\"'<>,\\.\\?/ =]", "m");

  if (obj.dataType == "char") {
    // replace tab and quote characters pasted from MS Word with standard characters
    obj.value = obj.value.replace(/\t/g, " ");
    obj.value = obj.value.replace(/\u201C/g, "\"");
    obj.value = obj.value.replace(/\u201D/g, "\"");
    obj.value = obj.value.replace(/\u2018/g, "'");
    obj.value = obj.value.replace(/\u2019/g, "'");

    if (invalidRegExp.test(obj.value)) {
      return {
        "msg": "The field contains invalid characters."
      }
    }

  }

  return null;
}

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