Question

Hello I am working on a javascript that is suppose to test the password field. However I can’t seem to get it to work. Nothing bad happens the page loads but seems like the script isn’t working. Here is what I have written up so far. I want it to check for a Upper and lower case letter, a number and a non-regular expression. Lenght isn’t important just that it has one of each. Here is what I have written so far.

UPDDATE: Found a simplier way of writing the script. And I can get it to give me a alert whenever the password field is wrong. But I can’t get the true statements to work to where it will do the document button click.

var str= passwordFieldForm;
    var patt=/[a-z]/g;
    var patt2 = /[A-Z]/g; 
    var patt3 = /[0-9]/g; 
    var patt4 = /[~\!@#\$%\^&*_\-\+=`\|\\(\)\{\}\[\]:;"'<>,\.\?\/]/g; 

    var result=patt.test(str);
    var result2=patt2.test(str);
    var result3=patt3.test(str);
    var result4=patt4.test(str);

    if (!result)
      alert("Needs a lowercase letter");

    if (!result2)
      alert("Needs a Uppercase Letter")

    if (!result3)
      alert("Needs a Number.")

    if (!result4)
      alert("Needs a special character")


    if (result) && (result2) && (result3) && (result4) == true
      document.getElementById("kioskform:broswerPasswordSubmit").click();

Answer 1

This might be a bit closer to what you want, I’ve not tested it, but it should be more in the right direction:

function test(password)
{
    var patt1 = /[a-z]/g;
    var patt2 = /[A-Z]/g;
    var patt3 = /[0-9]/g;
    var patt4 = /[~\!@#\$%\^&*_\-\+=`\|\\(\)\{\}\[\]:;"'<>,\.\?\/]/g;

    if (!patt1.test(password)) {
        return ("You need a lowercase letter.");
    }

    if (!patt2.test(password)) {
        return ("You need an uppercaseletter.");
    }

    if (!patt3.test(password)) {
        return ("You need a number.");
    }

    if (!patt4.test(password)) {
        return ("You need to use a one of the following characters '~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[;.");
    }
}