Regular expression validation rule is not working in Confiforms definition field

[Henry Figueroa]

In a Confiforms definition field macro, I have defined a validation rule using a regular expression for a text area field to have the user enter multiple IP addresses. I tested the regular expression in regex101.com that works as expected, but not in the Confiforms validation rule. I am not sure if this is a bug or not in the application. I have the code written as:  

                  ([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})+

Please advise. Thank you.

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[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Henry Figueroa 

As far as I understand this regexp validates one IP address

If you enter multiple in multiple rows - it will fail (as it is tested agains the whole contents/text in the textarea)

Alex

[Henry Figueroa]

Hi @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ . I am using a space between IP addresses, instead of newlines. I tried it with comma separated and semi-colons, but no luck. The "+" in the regular expression code allows for any single separations/delimiters. Thank you.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Yes, but ConfiForms does not split your values into groups and attempts to match regular expression against each group. It matches the whole contents against the given pattern

[Henry Figueroa]

Thanks, Alex. This explains it why it did not work.