function EmailCheck (EmailStr)
{
var EmailPat=/^(.+)@(.+)$/;
var specialChars="\\(\\)<>@,;:\\\\\\\"\\.\\[\\]";
var validChars="\[^\\s" + specialChars + "\]";
var quotedUser="(\"[^\"]*\")";
var ipDomainPat=/^\[(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\]$/;
var atom=validChars + '+';
var word="(" + atom + "|" + quotedUser + ")";
var userPat=new RegExp("^" + word + "(\\." + word + ")*$");
var domainPat=new RegExp("^" + atom + "(\\." + atom +")*$");

var matchArray=EmailStr.match(EmailPat);
if (matchArray==null)
  return false;
else
  return true;
}


function validateEmail( strValue)
{
  /************************************************
  DESCRIPTION: Preveri string za ustrezen e-mail naslov
  PARAMETERS: strValue - String za testiranje
  RETURNS: True - v redu, drugo - napaka
  *************************************************/

  var objRegExp  = /(^[a-z]([a-z_\.]*)@([a-z_\.]*)([.][a-z]{3})$)|(^[a-z]([a-z_\.]*)@([a-z_\.]*)(\.[a-z]{3})(\.[a-z]{2})*$)/i;
  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*$)/;
  return objRegExp.test(strValue);
}



function validatePositiveInteger( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string contains only
    valid integer number.

PARAMETERS:
   strValue - String to be tested for validity

RETURNS:
   True if valid, otherwise false.
******************************************************************************/
  var objRegExp  = /^\+?\d+$/;

  //check for integer characters
  return objRegExp.test(strValue);
}

function validateInteger( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string contains only
    valid integer number.

PARAMETERS:
   strValue - String to be tested for validity

RETURNS:
   True if valid, otherwise false.
******************************************************************************/
  var objRegExp  = /(^-?\d\d*$)/;

  //check for integer characters
  return objRegExp.test(strValue);
}

function validateNotEmpty( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Validates that a string is not all
  blank (whitespace) characters.

PARAMETERS:
   strValue - String to be tested for validity

RETURNS:
   True if valid, otherwise false.
*************************************************/
   var strTemp = strValue;
   strTemp = trimAll(strTemp);
   if(strTemp.length > 0)
   {
     return true;
   }
   return false;
}

function validateDate( strValue )
{
/************************************************
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

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}$/
  var objRegExp = /^\d{2}(\.)\d{2}\1\d{4}$/

  //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) //find date separator
    var arrayDate = strValue.split(strSeparator); //split date into month, day, year
    //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}
    var intDay = parseInt(arrayDate[1]);

    //check if month value and day value agree
    if(arrayLookup[arrayDate[0]] != null)
    {
      if(intDay <= arrayLookup[arrayDate[0]] && intDay != 0)
        return true; //found in lookup table, good date
    }

    //check for February
    var intYear = parseInt(arrayDate[2]);
    var intMonth = parseInt(arrayDate[0]);
    if( ((intYear % 4 == 0 && intDay <= 29) || (intYear % 4 != 0 && intDay <=28)) && intDay !=0)
      return true; //Feb. had valid number of days
  }
  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);
}


function rightTrim( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Trims trailing whitespace chars.

PARAMETERS:
   strValue - String to be trimmed.

RETURNS:
   Source string with right whitespaces removed.
*************************************************/
var objRegExp = /^([\w\W]*)(\b\s*)$/;

      if(objRegExp.test(strValue))
      {
       //remove trailing a whitespace characters
       strValue = strValue.replace(objRegExp, '$1');
    }
  return strValue;
}

function leftTrim( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Trims leading whitespace chars.

PARAMETERS:
   strValue - String to be trimmed

RETURNS:
   Source string with left whitespaces removed.
*************************************************/
  var objRegExp = /^(\s*)(\b[\w\W]*)$/;

      if(objRegExp.test(strValue)) {
       //remove leading a whitespace characters
       strValue = strValue.replace(objRegExp, '$2');
    }
  return strValue;
}

function trimAll( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Removes leading and trailing spaces.

PARAMETERS: Source string from which spaces will
  be removed;

RETURNS: Source string with whitespaces removed.
*************************************************/
 var objRegExp = /^(\s*)$/;

    //check for all spaces
    if(objRegExp.test(strValue)) {
       strValue = strValue.replace(objRegExp, '');
       if( strValue.length == 0)
          return strValue;
    }

   //check for leading & trailing spaces
   objRegExp = /^(\s*)([\W\w]*)(\b\s*$)/;
   if(objRegExp.test(strValue)) {
       //remove leading and trailing whitespace characters
       strValue = strValue.replace(objRegExp, '$2');
    }
  return strValue;
}


function removeCommas( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Removes commas from source string.

PARAMETERS:
  strValue - Source string from which commas will
    be removed;

RETURNS: Source string with commas removed.
*************************************************/
  var objRegExp = /,/g; //search for commas globally

  //replace all matches with empty strings
  return strValue.replace(objRegExp,'');
}

function addCommas( strValue )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Inserts commas into numeric string.

PARAMETERS:
  strValue - source string containing commas.

RETURNS: String modified with comma grouping if
  source was all numeric, otherwise source is
  returned.

REMARKS: Used with integers or numbers with
  2 or less decimal places.
*************************************************/
  var objRegExp  = new RegExp('(-?[0-9]+)([0-9]{3})');

    //check for match to search criteria
    while(objRegExp.test(strValue)) {
       //replace original string with first group match,
       //a comma, then second group match
       strValue = strValue.replace(objRegExp, '$1,$2');
    }
  return strValue;
}

function removeCharacters( strValue, strMatchPattern )
{
/************************************************
DESCRIPTION: Removes characters from a source string
  based upon matches of the supplied pattern.

PARAMETERS:
  strValue - source string containing number.

RETURNS: String modified with characters
  matching search pattern removed

USAGE:  strNoSpaces = removeCharacters( ' sfdf  dfd',
                                '\s*')
*************************************************/
 var objRegExp =  new RegExp( strMatchPattern, 'gi' );

 //replace passed pattern matches with blanks
  return strValue.replace(objRegExp,'');
}