Extending <cfinput> Validation Options
You can’t add your own validation types to <cfinput>, but you can extend the validation by providing regular expressions. A regular expression is a search pattern used to match strings. Full coverage of regular expressions is beyond the scope of this book, but here is an example to help explain the concept.
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