Question

I’m very stumped here. I’m trying to take some server-side PHP and introduce some JavaScript that does the same thing – giving hints to the user as they type. I have the following, which is attempting to find all lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and numbers 0 or more times; it then deletes those characters, leaving behind a string containing everything else. I then take the length of this and compare it to a variable maxSymbols, which is 5.

I cannot get this to evaluate properly… what am I missing here?

else if(passwordValue.replace(/([a-zA-Z0-9])*/, '').length > maxSymbols){

// Check the maximum number of symbols in the password.
    document.getElementById("passwordHint").innerHTML = "You've used too many symbols, " + maxSymbols + " is the maximum.";
    document.getElementById("passwordHint").style.color = "red";

}

Answer 1

You are missing the g modifier for your regular expression. Without the g, you are only replacing the first match.

Try if(passwordValue.replace(/([a-zA-Z0-9])*/g, '').length > maxSymbols).

Hope this helps,

Pete