Question

I have an issue where I need to use a RegularExpressionValidator to limit the length of a string to 400 Characters.

My expression was .{0,400}

My question: Is there a way to limit the length of characters to 400 without taking into consideration blank spaces?

I want to be able to accept blank spaces in the string but not count it in the length. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I pretty much agree with Greg, but here’s the regex you want:

^\s*([^\s]\s*){0,400}$

@Boopid: If you really meant only the space character, replace \s with a space in the regex.