RE: [PEAR-DEV] Quickform nonzero rule bug (?)

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:45 AM, mailto:george@omniti.com wrote: > On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 11:07 AM, David Sklar wrote: >> I think /^-?[1-9][0-9]*$/ is clearer if the name of the rule is >> "nonzero" but if you don't want to change it (and you're right, it >> is easy to use 'regex' instead) then just make sure it's clear in >> the documentation what the "nonzero" rule does. > > > Just out of curiosity, what is the point of this validation? I only > ask because I've seen people use this to validate us zipcodes, which > does not work (there are some that begin with zero). I like /^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$/ for US ZIP codes. I am not sure what the nonzero rule as is currently in the code is useful for. /^-?[1-9][0-9]*$/ could be useful for a value that's meant to be an adjustment or delta for an existing value. David