Regex to look for vbCrLF (carriage) or tabs

Jedistar,
I am not good in regex myself but there is a tool I use for all my asp.net apps
its called regex builder and you can download it and use it for free from
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=9e33c395-8275-4906-8a09-0bff41fdc1d6

Good luck

try

"^[\w\s\n\t]+$"

i need to disallow \n\t

i think u made it such that it allows \n\t

you may use replace function

str = Replace(str,vbCrlf," ")

what do you mean by dissallowing \n\t? (remove them?)

do not the syntax in asp.net
it is in asp
it finds \n\r\t and replaces with white space

     Set objRegExpr = New regexp
     objRegExpr.Pattern = "[\n\t\r]"
     objRegExpr.Global = true
     objRegExpr.IgnoreCase = true
     newStr = objRegExpr.Replace(str," ")
     Set objRegExpr = Nothing
     Response.Write(newStr)

do not know the syntax in asp.net :(

You can use a RegularExpressionValidator like this.

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Tab or CR is not allowed" ControlToValidate="TextBox1" ValidationExpression="[^\t\n]*"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

no no im displaying from db

Sorry! I'm lost.  Can you tell me more about what you want to achieve and show more of your code?

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "message") %>                 -> C# code in .aspx

the above message has new line codes inside but when i display it
it comes up as 1 line, how do i get it to display the proper new lines