Guys,
     i am new to regExp's, i am trying this code but its returning a true 
value even when my string/field does not have any alphabetical characters.

dim strInput,  regEx, xfound
strInput = trim(objRS(xFieldArr(i)))
Set regEx = New RegExp
regEx.Pattern = [a-zA-Z]
regEx.Global = True
xfound = regEx.Test(strInput)
if xfound then
   Response.Write "alphabetical chars in field"
else
   Response.Write "non alphabetical chars in field"
end if

Thanks in advance for your help

You need to put your regexp pattern in quotes, as below:

Set regEx = New RegExp
regEx.Pattern = "[a-zA-Z]"
                ^        ^



-----Original Message-----
From: imran.saleem@b... [mailto:imran.saleem@b...]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:04 PM
To: ASP Databases
Subject: [asp_databases] matching chars in a string/field


Guys,
     i am new to regExp's, i am trying this code but its returning a true 
value even when my string/field does not have any alphabetical characters.

dim strInput,  regEx, xfound
strInput = trim(objRS(xFieldArr(i)))
Set regEx = New RegExp
regEx.Pattern = [a-zA-Z]
regEx.Global = True
xfound = regEx.Test(strInput)
if xfound then
   Response.Write "alphabetical chars in field"
else
   Response.Write "non alphabetical chars in field"
end if

Thanks in advance for your help

Thanks Jack.
> 

You need to put your regexp pattern in quotes, as below:

Set regEx = New RegExp
regEx.Pattern = "[a-zA-Z]"
                ^        ^