Regular Expression

[Guest]

I have a textbox and want to allow my user to enter negative or positive
decimal values.

I want to do 2 things:

1) Only allow the user to type one minus sign (-)
2) Only allow the user to enter one point (.)

I would like to do this using Javascript or a Regular Expression.

Anyone got something that does this already?

 

[Guest]

^(-)?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$

That should do it - it will also prevent a decimal point if there's no
digits after.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Slight revision:

^(-)?\d*\.?\d+$

Besides being a bit more succint, it allows a number that starts with a dot,
such as ".1" without a preceding digit.

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^(-)?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$

That should do it - it will also prevent a decimal point if there's no
digits after.

I have a textbox and want to allow my user to enter negative or positive
decimal values.

I want to do 2 things:

1) Only allow the user to type one minus sign (-)
2) Only allow the user to enter one point (.)

I would like to do this using Javascript or a Regular Expression.

Anyone got something that does this already?