Question

im trying to validate my form,
but for some reason the SSN field wont work 🙁

i have:

    validate: function () {
        contact.message = '';
        if (!$('#contact-container #contact-name').val()) {
            contact.message += 'Name is required. ';
        }

        var ssn = $('#contact-container #contact-ssn').val();
        if (!ssn) {
            contact.message += 'SSN is required. ';
        }
        else {
            if (!contact.validateSSN(ssn)) {
                contact.message += 'SSN is invalid. ';
            }
        }

        var email = $('#contact-container #contact-email').val();
        if (!email) {
            contact.message += 'Email is required. ';
        }
        else {
            if (!contact.validateEmail(email)) {
                contact.message += 'Email is invalid. ';
            }
        }

        if (!$('#contact-container #contact-message').val()) {
            contact.message += 'Message is required.';
        }

        if (contact.message.length > 0) {
            return false;
        }
        else {
            return true;
        }
    },

and

            validateSSN: function (ssn) {
            // 
            if (!/^[0-9]{9}$/)
                return false; 
                    else 
                    { 
                       return true;
                    }

    },

The e-mail section i have works fine, but the SSN section just accepts anything along as its not empty. What am i missing?
thank you

Answer 1

!/^[0-9]{9}$/ will always return false since the /…/ part evaluates to a regex object and an object is always evaluated to true.

You probably want to if (!/^[0-9]{9}$/.test(ssn))

EDIT: Even simpler:

validateSSN: function (ssn) {
  return /^[0-9]{9}$/.test(ssn);
}