// validate.js function formcancel() { var yes_or_no=confirm ("Are you sure you want to cancel the Questionnaire?\nYour answers will not be saved."); if (yes_or_no== true) self.close(); } // // return "ok" or "no answer" function validateCheckBox( qNumber){ var valid; var field; var returnCode="no answer"; for(var i=0; i //----------------------------------------- // return "no selection" or "ok" //----------------------------------------- function validateSelectBox(qNumber){ var valid="no selection"; var list = document.forms[0].elements[qNumber]; if (list.selectedIndex != 0) { valid = "ok"; } return valid; } //--------------------------------------------- // return "ok", or error message //--------------------------------------------- //-------------------------- function emailCheck (emailStr) { if (emailStr=="") return("ok"); /* The following pattern is used to check if the entered e-mail address fits the user@domain format. It also is used to separate the username from the domain. */ var emailPat=/^(.+)@(.+)$/ /* The following string represents the pattern for matching all special characters. We don't want to allow special characters in the address. These characters include ( ) < > @ , ; : \ " . [ ] */ var specialChars="\\(\\)<>@,;:\\\\\\\"\\.\\[\\]" /* The following string represents the range of characters allowed in a username or domainname. It really states which chars aren't allowed. */ var validChars="\[^\\s" + specialChars + "\]" /* The following pattern applies if the "user" is a quoted string (in which case, there are no rules about which characters are allowed and which aren't; anything goes). E.g. "jiminy cricket"@disney.com is a legal e-mail address. */ var quotedUser="(\"[^\"]*\")" /* The following pattern applies for domains that are IP addresses, rather than symbolic names. E.g. joe@[123.124.233.4] is a legal e-mail address. NOTE: The square brackets are required. */ var ipDomainPat=/^\[(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\]$/ /* The following string represents an atom (basically a series of non-special characters.) */ var atom=validChars + '+' /* The following string represents one word in the typical username. For example, in john.doe@somewhere.com, john and doe are words. Basically, a word is either an atom or quoted string. */ var word="(" + atom + "|" + quotedUser + ")" // The following pattern describes the structure of the user var userPat=new RegExp("^" + word + "(\\." + word + ")*$") /* The following pattern describes the structure of a normal symbolic domain, as opposed to ipDomainPat, shown above. */ var domainPat=new RegExp("^" + atom + "(\\." + atom +")*$") /* Finally, begin with the coarse pattern to simply break up user@domain into different pieces that are easy to analyze. */ var matchArray=emailStr.match(emailPat) if (matchArray==null) { /* Too many/few @'s or something; basically, this address doesn't even fit the general mould of a valid e-mail address. */ return ("Email address seems incorrect (check @ and .'s)"); } var user=matchArray[1] var domain=matchArray[2] // See if "user" is valid if (user.match(userPat)==null) { // user is not valid return("The username doesn't seem to be valid."); } /* if the e-mail address is at an IP address (as opposed to a symbolic host name) make sure the IP address is valid. */ var IPArray=domain.match(ipDomainPat) if (IPArray!=null) { // this is an IP address for (var i=1;i<=4;i++) { if (IPArray[i]>255) { alert("Destination IP address is invalid!") return false } } return "ok"; } // Domain is symbolic name var domainArray=domain.match(domainPat) if (domainArray==null) { alert("The domain name doesn't seem to be valid.") return false } /* domain name seems valid, but now make sure that it ends in a three-letter word (like com, edu, gov) or a two-letter word, representing country (uk, nl), and that there's a hostname preceding the domain or country. */ /* Now we need to break up the domain to get a count of how many atoms it consists of. */ var atomPat=new RegExp(atom,"g") var domArr=domain.match(atomPat) var len=domArr.length if (domArr[domArr.length-1].length<2 || domArr[domArr.length-1].length>3) { // the address must end in a two letter or three letter word. return "The address must end in a three-letter domain, or two letter country."; } // Make sure there's a host name preceding the domain. if (len<2) { return "This address is missing a hostname!" } // If we've gotten this far, everything's valid! return "ok"; } // End -->