jQuery validate: How to add a rule for regular expression validation?

Question

I am using the jQuery validation plugin. Great stuff! I want to migrate my existing ASP.NET solution to use jQuery instead of the ASP.NET validators. I am m

Answer 1

No reason to define the regex as a string.

$.validator.addMethod(
    "regex",
    function(value, element, regexp) {
        var check = false;
        return this.optional(element) || regexp.test(value);
    },
    "Please check your input."
);

and

telephone: { required: true, regex : /^[\d\s]+$/, minlength: 5 },

tis better this way, no?