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04.01.2008 at 10:28AM PDT, ID: 23286553
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I would like to validate user input string before form is submitted for a comma and space

Asked by deakie in Regular Expressions, JavaScript

Tags: JavaScript Regex, IE

I have a regex to try and confirm that within the user input I have any letter followed by a comma then a space then any letter,
ex: m, a

However it is not working.....Here's the script.
What have I done wrong?
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if (FormAction == 'Search') 
    {		
        var str = document.thisForm.name.value;
        var reg = new RegExp("[a-zA-Z]+,\s?[a-zA-Z]+"); 
 
        if (reg.test(str))
            alert("Format is valid.") 
        else
            alert("Format is invalid.")			
            return;
    }
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