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Validation Rule to check if a field contains specified characters

Hi All,

 

We have a requirement wherein a field can have any values between 0-9 or special characters comma,spaces,"+","-",";","/",".","(",")". Other than this a user should not be able to enter anything.

 

Need to write a custom validation rule for this. But not able to achieve the desired functionality. Please help me how to achieve it

 

Thanks in advance

Priya Nair

Steve :-/Steve :-/

Can you include the source code you are currently using?

 

It looks like either a 

 

 

CONTAINS(FieldName, "Text") or NOT(CONTAINS(FieldName, "Text")

 

 

 

Formula sholud get you what you are looking for . 

NPMNPM
This looks like might be a good candidate for the REGEX function.  Check it out in Help and Training (Search on REGEX)and this is a useful reference for the function and constructs Regex reference.
JIDzenpriseJIDzenprise

Can you please elaborate on how the REGEX works? I want to validate that a field contains letters and numbers but not spaces or special characters.