text: // JavaScript Document
  
  function validateEmail(strValue) {
  /************************************************
  DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string contains a
    valid email pattern.
  
   PARAMETERS:
     strValue - String to be tested for validity
  
  RETURNS:
     True if valid, otherwise false.
  
  REMARKS: Accounts for email with country appended
    does not validate that email contains valid URL
    type (.com, .gov, etc.) or valid country suffix.
  *************************************************/
  var objRegExp = /(^[a-z]([a-z_\.]*)@([a-z_\.]*)([.][a-z]{3})$)|(^[a-z]([a-z_\.]*)@([a-z_\.]*)(\.[a-z]{3})(\.[a-z]{2})*$)/i;
    //check for valid email
    return objRegExp.test(strValue);
  }
  
  function  validateNumeric( strValue ) {
  /*****************************************************************
  DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string contains only valid numbers.
  
  PARAMETERS:
     strValue - String to be tested for validity
  
  RETURNS:
     True if valid, otherwise false.
  ******************************************************************/
    var objRegExp  =  /(^-?\d\d*\.\d*$)|(^-?\d\d*$)|(^-?\.\d\d*$)/;
  
    //check for numeric characters
    return objRegExp.test(strValue);
  }
  
  function validateDate(strValue, us) {
  /************************************************
  DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string contains only
      valid dates with 2 digit month, 2 digit day,
      4 digit year. Date separator can be ., -, or /.
      Uses combination of regular expressions and
      string parsing to validate date.
      Ex. mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy or mm.dd.yyyy
  
  PARAMETERS:
  	strValue - String to be tested for validity
  	us - US Format (true - false)
  
  RETURNS:
     True if valid, otherwise false.
  
  REMARKS:
     Avoids some of the limitations of the Date.parse()
     method such as the date separator character.
  *************************************************/
    var objRegExp = /^\d{1,2}(\-|\/|\.)\d{1,2}\1\d{4}$/
   
    //check to see if in correct format
    if(!objRegExp.test(strValue))
      return false; //doesn't match pattern, bad date
    else {
  	  
      var strSeparator = strValue.substring(2,3);
      var arrayDate = strValue.split(strSeparator);
  	
      //create a lookup for months not equal to Feb.
      var arrayLookup = { '01' : 31,'03' : 31, 
                          '04' : 30,'05' : 31,
                          '06' : 30,'07' : 31,
                          '08' : 31,'09' : 30,
                          '10' : 31,'11' : 30,'12' : 31}
  						
  	if (us) {
      	var intDay = parseInt(arrayDate[1],10);
  		var intMonth = parseInt(arrayDate[0],10);
  		var indexDay = 0; 
  	} else {
  		var intDay = parseInt(arrayDate[0],10);
  		var intMonth = parseInt(arrayDate[1],10);
  		var indexDay = 1; 
  	}
  	
      //check if month value and day value agree
      if(arrayLookup[arrayDate[indexDay]] != null) {
        if(intDay <= arrayLookup[arrayDate[indexDay]] && intDay != 0)
          return true; //found in lookup table, good date
      }
      
      //check for February (bugfix 20050322)
      //bugfix  for parseInt kevin
      //bugfix  biss year  O.Jp Voutat
      
      if (intMonth == 2) { 
         var intYear = parseInt(arrayDate[2]);
         if (intDay > 0 && intDay < 29) {
             return true;
         }
         else if (intDay == 29) {
           if ((intYear % 4 == 0) && (intYear % 100 != 0) || 
               (intYear % 400 == 0)) {
                // year div by 4 and ((not div by 100) or div by 400) ->ok
               return true;
           }   
         }
      }
  	
    }  
    return false; //any other values, bad date
  }
  
  function validateValue( strValue, strMatchPattern ) {
  /************************************************
  DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string a matches
    a valid regular expression value.
  
  PARAMETERS:
     strValue - String to be tested for validity
     strMatchPattern - String containing a valid
        regular expression match pattern.
  
  RETURNS:
     True if valid, otherwise false.
  *************************************************/
  var objRegExp = new RegExp( strMatchPattern);
  
   //check if string matches pattern
   return objRegExp.test(strValue);
  }
  