Cary, thanks, that worked. I'll go with your way. Norm had also mentioned that in a private communication yesterday, for some reason I didn't see it would work until you had pointed it out too.
I still cannot use " or [ or ] though, but oh well. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr Sr. Remedy Developer Leader Communications, Inc. 405 736 3211 -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Gary, Wow. From two sentence to several paragraphs. :) Now I also think I have a better understand of what your attempting to do. RE: " I cannot use the ^ because it is a password, and the user HAS to have A-z and 0-9 as well. " Actually I think that is not true... A Run if Like... 'New Password' LIKE (((( "%" + "[^A-z,0-9]" ) + "%" ) + "[^A-z,0-9]" ) + "%" ) Should tell you if the field has at least two characters that are not in those sets. (And the string can have values that are in those sets anywhere in the LIKE match where a "%" exists.) However... at the end of the day.. I think that building ARS workflow to do this kind of complex pattern matching is likely a loosing battle. I would advocate the idea of using an ARS Filter Plugin (Maybe even the Java Scripting Plugin) for this kind of activity. You can actually use Regular expressions and the code can validate multiple matches and return multiple returns all in one call to the Plugin Server. Sure it requires more than "just ARS knowledge" to do it, but there should be some standard-ish things out there for password complexity checking in most languages. (Especially C, Java, Perl, ....) [ I really like to reuse this kind of stuff when ever possible. ] I also have to note that v7.1 brings a new spin on all of this stuff too. ( More built in features for local password management.) So I am not sure how all of that works just yet as far as password patterns etc... [ So, just some food for thought about what the future might change and effect the stuff your building today. ] -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
