// FormChek.js
//
// SUMMARY
//
// This is a set of JavaScript functions for validating input on 
// an HTML form.  Functions are provided to validate:
//
//  - email addresses
//	- dates (entry of year, month, and day and validity of combined date)
// Supporting utility functions validate that:
//
//      - characters are Letter, Digit, or LetterOrDigit
//      - strings are a Signed, Positive, Negative, Nonpositive, or
//        Nonnegative integer
//      - strings are a Float or a SignedFloat
//      - strings are Alphabetic, Alphanumeric, or Whitespace
//      - strings contain an integer within a specified range
//
// Functions are also provided to interactively check the
// above kinds of data and prompt the user if they have
// been entered incorrectly.
//
// Other utility functions are provided to:
//
// 	- remove from a string characters which are/are not 
//	  in a "bag" of selected characters	
// 	- reformat a string, adding delimiter characters
//	- strip whitespace/leading whitespace from a string
//      - reformat U.S. phone numbers, ZIP codes, and Social
//        Security numbers
//
//
// Many of the below functions take an optional parameter eok (for "emptyOK")
// which determines whether the empty string will return true or false.
// Default behavior is controlled by global variable defaultEmptyOK.
//
// BASIC DATA VALIDATION FUNCTIONS:
//
// isWhitespace (s)                    Check whether string s is empty or whitespace.
// isLetter (c)                        Check whether character c is an English letter 
// isDigit (c)                         Check whether character c is a digit 
// isLetterOrDigit (c)                 Check whether character c is a letter or digit.
// isInteger (s [,eok])                True if all characters in string s are numbers.
// isSignedInteger (s [,eok])          True if all characters in string s are numbers; leading + or - allowed.
// isPositiveInteger (s [,eok])        True if string s is an integer > 0.
// isNonnegativeInteger (s [,eok])     True if string s is an integer >= 0.
// isNegativeInteger (s [,eok])        True if s is an integer < 0.
// isNonpositiveInteger (s [,eok])     True if s is an integer <= 0.
// isFloat (s [,eok])                  True if string s is an unsigned floating point (real) number. (Integers also OK.)
// isSignedFloat (s [,eok])            True if string s is a floating point number; leading + or - allowed. (Integers also OK.)
// isAlphabetic (s [,eok])             True if string s is English letters 
// isAlphanumeric (s [,eok])           True if string s is English letters and numbers only.
// 
// isEmail (s [,eok])                  True if string s is a valid email address.
// isYear (s [,eok])                   True if string s is a valid Year number.
// isIntegerInRange (s, a, b [,eok])   True if string s is an integer between a and b, inclusive.
// isMonth (s [,eok])                  True if string s is a valid month between 1 and 12.
// isDay (s [,eok])                    True if string s is a valid day between 1 and 31.
// daysInFebruary (year)               Returns number of days in February of that year.
// isDate (year, month, day)           True if string arguments form a valid date.


// FUNCTIONS TO REFORMAT DATA:
//
// stripCharsInBag (s, bag)            Removes all characters in string bag from string s.
// stripCharsNotInBag (s, bag)         Removes all characters NOT in string bag from string s.
// stripWhitespace (s)                 Removes all whitespace characters from s.
// stripInitialWhitespace (s)          Removes initial (leading) whitespace characters from s.
// reformat (TARGETSTRING, STRING,     Function for inserting formatting characters or
//   INTEGER, STRING, INTEGER ... )       delimiters into TARGETSTRING.                                       


// FUNCTIONS TO PROMPT USER:
//
// prompt (s)                          Display prompt string s in status bar.
// promptEntry (s)                     Display data entry prompt string s in status bar.
// warnEmpty (theField, s)             Notify user that required field theField is empty.
// warnInvalid (theField, s)           Notify user that contents of field theField are invalid.


// FUNCTIONS TO INTERACTIVELY CHECK FIELD CONTENTS:
//
// checkString (theField, s [,eok])    Check that theField.value is not empty or all whitespace.
// checkEmail (theField [,eok])        Check that theField.value is a valid Email.
// checkYear (theField [,eok])         Check that theField.value is a valid Year.
// checkMonth (theField [,eok])        Check that theField.value is a valid Month.
// checkDay (theField [,eok])          Check that theField.value is a valid Day.
// checkDate (yearField, monthField, dayField, labelString, OKtoOmitDay)
//                                     Check that field values form a valid date.
// getRadioButtonValue (radio)         Get checked value from radio button.

// Performance hint: when you deploy this file on your website, strip out the
// comment lines from the source code as well as any of the functions which
// you don't need.  This will give you a smaller .js file and achieve faster
// downloads.


// REGULAR EXPRESSION DECLARATIONS
// Notes which apply to all the regexps below:
// (1) We want to only match strings exactly. In other words,
//     we only want to return true if the string being tested
//     matches the regular expression with no leading or trailing
//     unmatched characters. So, we begin each regexp with
//     the special character ^ (which matches beginning of input)
//     and end each regexp with the special character $ (which
//     matches end of input).
// (2) In the below comments we use these abbreviations:
//     BOI = Beginning Of Input
//     EOI = End Of Input
// (3) For explanations of the regexp special characters such as
//     ^ $ \s + [] \d * ! ? \ .



// BOI, followed by one or more whitespace characters, followed by EOI.
var reWhitespace = /^\s+$/


// BOI, followed by one lower or uppercase English letter, followed by EOI.
var reLetter = /^[a-zA-Z]$/


// BOI, followed by one or more lower or uppercase English letters, 
// followed by EOI.
var reAlphabetic = /^[a-zA-Z]+$/


// BOI, followed by one or more lower or uppercase English letters
// or digits, followed by EOI.
var reAlphanumeric = /^[a-zA-Z0-9]|\s$/

var rePassword = /^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/


// BOI, followed by one digit, followed by EOI.
var reDigit = /^\d/


// BOI, followed by one lower or uppercase English letter
// or digit, followed by EOI.
var reLetterOrDigit = /^([a-zA-Z]|\d)$/


// BOI, followed by one or more digits, followed by EOI.
var reInteger = /^\d+$/


// BOI, followed by an optional + or -, followed by one or more digits, 
// followed by EOI.
//var reSignedInteger = /^(+|-)?\d+$/


// BOI, followed by one of these two patterns:
// (a) one or more digits, followed by ., followed by zero or more digits
// (b) zero or more digits, followed by ., followed by one or more digits
// ... followed by EOI.
var reFloat = /^((\d+(\.\d*)?)|((\d*\.)?\d+))$/


// BOI, followed by an optional + or -, followed by one of these two patterns:
// (a) one or more digits, followed by ., followed by zero or more digits
// (b) zero or more digits, followed by ., followed by one or more digits
// ... followed by EOI.
//var reSignedFloat = /^(((+|-)?\d+(\.\d*)?)|((+|-)?(\d*\.)?\d+))$/

// BOI, followed by one or more characters, followed by @,
// followed by one or more characters, followed by ., 
// followed by one or more characters, followed by EOI.
var reEmail = /^.+\@.+\..+$/




// VARIABLE DECLARATIONS

var digits = "0123456789";

var lowercaseLetters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

var uppercaseLetters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

// whitespace characters as defined by this sample code
var whitespace = " \t\n\r";


// non-digit characters which are allowed in phone numbers
var phoneNumberDelimiters = "()- ";


// m is an abbreviation for "missing"

var mPrefix = "You did not enter a value into the "
var mSuffix = " field. This is a required field. Please enter it now."

// s is an abbreviation for "string"

var sWorldLastName = "Family Name"
var sWorldFirstName = "Given Name"
var sTitle = "Title"
var sCompanyName = "Company Name"
var sWorldAddress = "Address"
var sCity = "City"
var sStateCode = "State Code"
var sCountry = "Country"
var sZIPCode = "ZIP Code"
var sPhone = "Phone Number"
var sFax = "Fax Number"
var sDateOfBirth = "Date of Birth"
var sEmail = "Email"
var sOtherInfo = "Other Information"


// i is an abbreviation for "invalid"

//var iStateCode = "This field must be a valid two character U.S. state abbreviation (like CA for California). Please reenter it now."
//var iZIPCode = "This field must be a 5 or 9 digit U.S. ZIP Code (like 94043). Please reenter it now."
//var iWorldPhone = "This field must be a valid international phone number. Please reenter it now."

var iEmail = "This field must be a valid email address (like foo@bar.com). Please reenter it now."
var iDay = "This field must be a day number between 1 and 31.  Please reenter it now."
var iMonth = "This field must be a month number between 1 and 12.  Please reenter it now."
var iYear = "This field must be a 2 or 4 digit year number.  Please reenter it now."
var iDatePrefix = "The Day, Month, and Year for "
var iDateSuffix = " do not form a valid date.  Please reenter them now."



// p is an abbreviation for "prompt"

var pEntryPrompt = "Please enter a "
//var pWorldPhone = "international phone number."
var pEmail = "valid email address (like foo@bar.com)."
var pDay = "day number between 1 and 31."
var pMonth = "month number between 1 and 12."
var pYear = "2 or 4 digit year number."


// Global variable defaultEmptyOK defines default return value 
// for many functions when they are passed the empty string. 
// By default, they will return defaultEmptyOK.
//
// defaultEmptyOK is false, which means that by default, 
// these functions will do "strict" validation.  Function
// isInteger, for example, will only return true if it is
// passed a string containing an integer; if it is passed
// the empty string, it will return false.
//
// You can change this default behavior globally (for all 
// functions which use defaultEmptyOK) by changing the value
// of defaultEmptyOK.
//
// Most of these functions have an optional argument emptyOK
// which allows you to override the default behavior for 
// the duration of a function call.
//
// This functionality is useful because it is possible to
// say "if the user puts anything in this field, it must
// be an integer (or a phone number, or a string, etc.), 
// but it's OK to leave the field empty too."
// This is the case for fields which are optional but which
// must have a certain kind of content if filled in.

var defaultEmptyOK = false




// Attempting to make this library run on Navigator 2.0,
// so I'm supplying this array creation routine as per
// JavaScript 1.0 documentation.  If you're using 
// Navigator 3.0 or later, you don't need to do this;
// you can use the Array constructor instead.

function makeArray(n) {
//*** BUG: If I put this line in, I get two error messages:
//(1) Window.length can't be set by assignment
//(2) daysInMonth has no property indexed by 4
//If I leave it out, the code works fine.
//   this.length = n;
   for (var i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
      this[i] = 0
   } 
   return this
}



var daysInMonth = makeArray(12);
daysInMonth[1] = 31;
daysInMonth[2] = 29;   // must programmatically check this
daysInMonth[3] = 31;
daysInMonth[4] = 30;
daysInMonth[5] = 31;
daysInMonth[6] = 30;
daysInMonth[7] = 31;
daysInMonth[8] = 31;
daysInMonth[9] = 30;
daysInMonth[10] = 31;
daysInMonth[11] = 30;
daysInMonth[12] = 31;


// Check whether string s is empty.

function isEmpty(s)
{   return ((s == null) || (s.length == 0))
	alert("hi");
}


// Returns true if string s is empty or 
// whitespace characters only.

function isWhitespace (s)

{   // Is s empty?
    return (isEmpty(s) || reWhitespace.test(s));
}



// Removes all characters which appear in regexp bag from string s.
// NOTES:
// 1) bag must be a regexp which matches single characters in isolation,
//    i.e. A or B or C or D or 1 or 2 ...
//    e.g. /\d/g  or /[a-zA-Z]/g
// 2) make sure to append the 'g' modifier (for global search & replace)
//    at the end of the regexp
//    e.g. /\d/g  or /[a-zA-Z]/g

function stripCharsInRE (s, bag)

{       return s.replace(bag, "")
}



// Removes all characters which appear in string bag from string s.

function stripCharsInBag (s, bag)

{   var i;
    var returnString = "";

    // Search through string's characters one by one.
    // If character is not in bag, append to returnString.

    for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
    {   
        // Check that current character isn't whitespace.
        var c = s.charAt(i);
        if (bag.indexOf(c) == -1) returnString += c;
    }

    return returnString;
}



// Removes all characters which do NOT appear in string bag 
// from string s.

function stripCharsNotInBag (s, bag)

{   var i;
    var returnString = "";

    // Search through string's characters one by one.
    // If character is in bag, append to returnString.

    for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
    {   
        // Check that current character isn't whitespace.
        var c = s.charAt(i);
        if (bag.indexOf(c) != -1) returnString += c;
    }

    return returnString;
}



// Removes all whitespace characters from s.
// Global variable whitespace (see above)
// defines which characters are considered whitespace.

function stripWhitespace (s)

{   return stripCharsInBag (s, whitespace)
}


// Removes initial (leading) whitespace characters from s.
// Global variable whitespace (see above)
// defines which characters are considered whitespace.

function stripInitialWhitespace (s)

{   var i = 0;

    while ((i < s.length) && charInString (s.charAt(i), whitespace))
       i++;
    
    return s.substring (i, s.length);
}







// Returns true if character c is an English letter 
// (A .. Z, a..z).
//
// NOTE: Need i18n version to support European characters.
// This could be tricky due to different character
// sets and orderings for various languages and platforms.

function isLetter (c)
{   return reLetter.test(c)
}



// Returns true if character c is a digit 
// (0 .. 9).

function isDigit (c)
{   return reDigit.test(c)
}



// Returns true if character c is a letter or digit.

function isLetterOrDigit (c)
{   return reLetterOrDigit.test(c)
}



// isInteger (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if all characters in string s are numbers.
//
// Accepts non-signed integers only. Does not accept floating 
// point, exponential notation, etc.
//
// We don't use parseInt because that would accept a string
// with trailing non-numeric characters.
//
// By default, returns defaultEmptyOK if s is empty.
// There is an optional second argument called emptyOK.
// emptyOK is used to override for a single function call
//      the default behavior which is specified globally by
//      defaultEmptyOK.
// If emptyOK is false (or any value other than true), 
//      the function will return false if s is empty.
// If emptyOK is true, the function will return true if s is empty.
//
// EXAMPLE FUNCTION CALL:     RESULT:
// isInteger ("5")            true 
// isInteger ("")             defaultEmptyOK
// isInteger ("-5")           false
// isInteger ("", true)       true
// isInteger ("", false)      false
// isInteger ("5", false)     true

function isInteger (s)

{   var i;

    if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isInteger.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isInteger.arguments[1] == true);

    return reInteger.test(s)
}







// isSignedInteger (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if all characters are numbers; 
// first character is allowed to be + or - as well.
//
// Does not accept floating point, exponential notation, etc.
//
// We don't use parseInt because that would accept a string
// with trailing non-numeric characters.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.
//
// EXAMPLE FUNCTION CALL:          RESULT:
// isSignedInteger ("5")           true 
// isSignedInteger ("")            defaultEmptyOK
// isSignedInteger ("-5")          true
// isSignedInteger ("+5")          true
// isSignedInteger ("", false)     false
// isSignedInteger ("", true)      true

function isSignedInteger (s)

{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isSignedInteger.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isSignedInteger.arguments[1] == true);

    
    else {
       return reSignedInteger.test(s)
    }
}




// isPositiveInteger (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if string s is an integer > 0.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isPositiveInteger (s)
{   var secondArg = defaultEmptyOK;

    if (isPositiveInteger.arguments.length > 1)
        secondArg = isPositiveInteger.arguments[1];

    // The next line is a bit byzantine.  What it means is:
    // a) s must be a signed integer, AND
    // b) one of the following must be true:
    //    i)  s is empty and we are supposed to return true for
    //        empty strings
    //    ii) this is a positive, not negative, number

    return (isSignedInteger(s, secondArg)
         && ( (isEmpty(s) && secondArg)  || (parseInt (s) > 0) ) );
}






// isNonnegativeInteger (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if string s is an integer >= 0.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isNonnegativeInteger (s)
{   var secondArg = defaultEmptyOK;

    if (isNonnegativeInteger.arguments.length > 1)
        secondArg = isNonnegativeInteger.arguments[1];

    // The next line is a bit byzantine.  What it means is:
    // a) s must be a signed integer, AND
    // b) one of the following must be true:
    //    i)  s is empty and we are supposed to return true for
    //        empty strings
    //    ii) this is a number >= 0

    return (isSignedInteger(s, secondArg)
         && ( (isEmpty(s) && secondArg)  || (parseInt (s) >= 0) ) );
}






// isNegativeInteger (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if string s is an integer < 0.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isNegativeInteger (s)
{   var secondArg = defaultEmptyOK;

    if (isNegativeInteger.arguments.length > 1)
        secondArg = isNegativeInteger.arguments[1];

    // The next line is a bit byzantine.  What it means is:
    // a) s must be a signed integer, AND
    // b) one of the following must be true:
    //    i)  s is empty and we are supposed to return true for
    //        empty strings
    //    ii) this is a negative, not positive, number

    return (isSignedInteger(s, secondArg)
         && ( (isEmpty(s) && secondArg)  || (parseInt (s) < 0) ) );
}






// isNonpositiveInteger (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if string s is an integer <= 0.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isNonpositiveInteger (s)
{   var secondArg = defaultEmptyOK;

    if (isNonpositiveInteger.arguments.length > 1)
        secondArg = isNonpositiveInteger.arguments[1];

    // The next line is a bit byzantine.  What it means is:
    // a) s must be a signed integer, AND
    // b) one of the following must be true:
    //    i)  s is empty and we are supposed to return true for
    //        empty strings
    //    ii) this is a number <= 0

    return (isSignedInteger(s, secondArg)
         && ( (isEmpty(s) && secondArg)  || (parseInt (s) <= 0) ) );
}





// isFloat (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// True if string s is an unsigned floating point (real) number. 
//
// Also returns true for unsigned integers. If you wish
// to distinguish between integers and floating point numbers,
// first call isInteger, then call isFloat.
//
// Does not accept exponential notation.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isFloat (s)

{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isFloat.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isFloat.arguments[1] == true);

    return reFloat.test(s)
}







// isSignedFloat (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// True if string s is a signed or unsigned floating point 
// (real) number. First character is allowed to be + or -.
//
// Also returns true for unsigned integers. If you wish
// to distinguish between integers and floating point numbers,
// first call isSignedInteger, then call isSignedFloat.
//
// Does not accept exponential notation.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isSignedFloat (s)

{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isSignedFloat.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isSignedFloat.arguments[1] == true);

    else {
       return reSignedFloat.test(s)
    }
}




// isAlphabetic (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if string s is English letters 
// (A .. Z, a..z) only.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.
//
// NOTE: Need i18n version to support European characters.
// This could be tricky due to different character
// sets and orderings for various languages and platforms.

function isAlphabetic (s)

{   var i;

    if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isAlphabetic.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isAlphabetic.arguments[1] == true);

    else {
       return reAlphabetic.test(s)
    }
}




// isAlphanumeric (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Returns true if string s is English letters 
// (A .. Z, a..z) and numbers only.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.
//
// NOTE: Need i18n version to support European characters.
// This could be tricky due to different character
// sets and orderings for various languages and platforms.

function isAlphanumeric (s)

{   var i;

    if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isAlphanumeric.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isAlphanumeric.arguments[1] == true);

    else {
       return reAlphanumeric.test(s)
    }
}




// reformat (TARGETSTRING, STRING, INTEGER, STRING, INTEGER ... )       
//
// Handy function for arbitrarily inserting formatting characters
// or delimiters of various kinds within TARGETSTRING.
//
// reformat takes one named argument, a string s, and any number
// of other arguments.  The other arguments must be integers or
// strings.  These other arguments specify how string s is to be
// reformatted and how and where other strings are to be inserted
// into it.
//
// reformat processes the other arguments in order one by one.
// * If the argument is an integer, reformat appends that number 
//   of sequential characters from s to the resultString.
// * If the argument is a string, reformat appends the string
//   to the resultString.
//
// NOTE: The first argument after TARGETSTRING must be a string.
// (It can be empty.)  The second argument must be an integer.
// Thereafter, integers and strings must alternate.  This is to
// provide backward compatibility to Navigator 2.0.2 JavaScript
// by avoiding use of the typeof operator.
//
// It is the caller's responsibility to make sure that we do not
// try to copy more characters from s than s.length.
//
// EXAMPLES:
//
// * To reformat a 10-digit U.S. phone number from "1234567890"
//   to "(123) 456-7890" make this function call:
//   reformat("1234567890", "(", 3, ") ", 3, "-", 4)
//
// * To reformat a 9-digit U.S. Social Security number from
//   "123456789" to "123-45-6789" make this function call:
//   reformat("123456789", "", 3, "-", 2, "-", 4)
//
// HINT:
//
// If you have a string which is already delimited in one way
// (example: a phone number delimited with spaces as "123 456 7890")
// and you want to delimit it in another way using function reformat,
// call function stripCharsNotInBag to remove the unwanted 
// characters, THEN call function reformat to delimit as desired.
//
// EXAMPLE:
//
// reformat (stripCharsNotInBag ("123 456 7890", digits),
//           "(", 3, ") ", 3, "-", 4)

function reformat (s)

{   var arg;
    var sPos = 0;
    var resultString = "";

    for (var i = 1; i < reformat.arguments.length; i++) {
       arg = reformat.arguments[i];
       if (i % 2 == 1) resultString += arg;
       else {
           resultString += s.substring(sPos, sPos + arg);
           sPos += arg;
       }
    }
    return resultString;
}




// isEmail (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// Email address must be of form a@b.c -- in other words:
// * there must be at least one character before the @
// * there must be at least one character before and after the .
// * the characters @ and . are both required
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isEmail (s)

{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isEmail.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isEmail.arguments[1] == true);
    
    else {
       return reEmail.test(s)
    }
}



// isYear (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// isYear returns true if string s is a valid 
// Year number.  Must be 2 or 4 digits only.
// 
// For Year 2000 compliance, you are advised
// to use 4-digit year numbers everywhere.
//
// And yes, this function is not Year 10000 compliant, but 
// because I am giving you 8003 years of advance notice,
// I don't feel very guilty about this ...
//
// For B.C. compliance, write your own function. ;->
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isYear (s)
{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isYear.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isYear.arguments[1] == true);
    if (!isNonnegativeInteger(s)) return false;
    return ((s.length == 2) || (s.length == 4));
}



// isIntegerInRange (STRING s, INTEGER a, INTEGER b [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// isIntegerInRange returns true if string s is an integer 
// within the range of integer arguments a and b, inclusive.
// 
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.


function isIntegerInRange (s, a, b)
{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isIntegerInRange.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isIntegerInRange.arguments[1] == true);

    // Catch non-integer strings to avoid creating a NaN below,
    // which isn't available on JavaScript 1.0 for Windows.
    if (!isInteger(s, false)) return false;

    // Now, explicitly change the type to integer via parseInt
    // so that the comparison code below will work both on 
    // JavaScript 1.2 (which typechecks in equality comparisons)
    // and JavaScript 1.1 and before (which doesn't).
    var num = parseInt (s);
    return ((num >= a) && (num <= b));
}



// isMonth (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// isMonth returns true if string s is a valid 
// month number between 1 and 12.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isMonth (s)
{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isMonth.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isMonth.arguments[1] == true);
    return isIntegerInRange (s, 1, 12);
}


// isDay (STRING s [, BOOLEAN emptyOK])
// 
// isDay returns true if string s is a valid 
// day number between 1 and 31.
// 
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function isDay (s)
{   if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isDay.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isDay.arguments[1] == true);   
    return isIntegerInRange (s, 1, 31);
}



// daysInFebruary (INTEGER year)
// 
// Given integer argument year,
// returns number of days in February of that year.

function daysInFebruary (year)
{   // February has 29 days in any year evenly divisible by four,
    // EXCEPT for centurial years which are not also divisible by 400.
    return (  ((year % 4 == 0) && ( (!(year % 100 == 0)) || (year % 400 == 0) ) ) ? 29 : 28 );
}


// isDate (STRING year, STRING month, STRING day)
//
// isDate returns true if string arguments year, month, and day 
// form a valid date.
// 

function isDate (year, month, day)
{   // catch invalid years (not 2- or 4-digit) and invalid months and days.
    if (! (isYear(year, false) && isMonth(month, false) && isDay(day, false))) return false;

    // Explicitly change type to integer to make code work in both
    // JavaScript 1.1 and JavaScript 1.2.
    var intYear = parseInt(year);
    var intMonth = parseInt(month);
    var intDay = parseInt(day);

    // catch invalid days, except for February
    if (intDay > daysInMonth[intMonth]) return false; 

    if ((intMonth == 2) && (intDay > daysInFebruary(intYear))) return false;

    return true;
}




/* FUNCTIONS TO NOTIFY USER OF INPUT REQUIREMENTS OR MISTAKES. */


// Display prompt string s in status bar.

function prompt (s)
{   window.status = s
}



// Display data entry prompt string s in status bar.

function promptEntry (s)
{   window.status = pEntryPrompt + s
}




// Notify user that required field theField is empty.
// String s describes expected contents of theField.value.
// Put focus in theField and return false.

function warnEmpty (theField, s)
{   theField.focus()
    alert(mPrefix + s + mSuffix)
    return false
}


// Notify user that contents of field theField are invalid.
// String s describes expected contents of theField.value.
// Put select theField, pu focus in it, and return false.

function warnInvalid (theField, s)
{   theField.focus()
    theField.select()
    alert(s)
    return false
}




/* FUNCTIONS TO INTERACTIVELY CHECK VARIOUS FIELDS. */

// checkString (TEXTFIELD theField, STRING s, [, BOOLEAN emptyOK==false])
//
// Check that string theField.value is not all whitespace.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function checkString (theField, s, emptyOK)
{   // Next line is needed on NN3 to avoid "undefined is not a number" error
    // in equality comparison below.
    if (checkString.arguments.length == 2) emptyOK = defaultEmptyOK;
    if ((emptyOK == true) && (isEmpty(theField.value))) return true;
    if (isWhitespace(theField.value)) 
       return warnEmpty (theField, s);
    else return true;
}






// checkEmail (TEXTFIELD theField [, BOOLEAN emptyOK==false])
//
// Check that string theField.value is a valid Email.
//
// For explanation of optional argument emptyOK,
// see comments of function isInteger.

function checkEmail (theField, emptyOK)
{   if (checkEmail.arguments.length == 1) emptyOK = defaultEmptyOK;
    if ((emptyOK == true) && (isEmpty(theField.value))) return true;
    else if (!isEmail(theField.value, false)) 
       return warnInvalid (theField, iEmail);
    else return true;
}

function isPassword (s)

{   var i;
	if (isEmpty(s)) 
       if (isPassword.arguments.length == 1) return defaultEmptyOK;
       else return (isPassword.arguments[1] == true);

    else {
       return rePassword.test(s)
    }
}