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Yep, the dot and suffix are required in this instance. These are PC files
that are exchanged back and forth.

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi

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This RE requires that there be a . (dot) in the filename. Is that
intentional? (It certainly is not required by the IFS)

BMay@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I just need a quick sanity check. I am not as proficient with regular
expressions as I would like.

I have been using the following expression to validate file names
uploaded
and retrieved from our root IFS file system

"/^\w+\.\w+$/"

This ensures that the file name and suffix contain only letters,
numbers,
and underscores.

I had a new requirement to allow dashes in the file name. So I changed
the expression to this.

"/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.\w+$/"

Any gotchas that I might be missing in this change?

Thanks,

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi

Young i Professionals
http://www.youngiprofessionals.com


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