I have created a form using Cold Fusion where the user needs to input their ID, which is their SSN. The users that will use this form are students and potentially could have foreign SSN's (i.e. FOR123456). I tried to use the following code (which works perfectly for the typical SSN, i.e. 123-45-6789):

<cfinput name="studentid" required="yes" maxlength="11" type="text" message="A valid Student ID number must be entered (e.g. 111-22-3333)." validate="social_security_number">

When trying to input FOR-12-3456, I receive "A valid Student ID number must be entered (e.g. 111-22-3333)."

Does anyone have any idea how I can validate this information?

THANKS!!!!

Hey nchrisman and welcome to the city that regularly and securely supports social expression. :)

I'm not a scripter by any means, so I can only suggest an approach to this question. Since the JavaScript generated by ColdFusion isn't getting the job done, I'm thinking you either need to adapt it to yer needs or write a regular expression that takes care of "foreign" numbers.

This doc (http://developer.irt.org/script/3003.htm) might help you.

This guy (http://geekswithblogs.net/sbellware/archive/2004/10/16/12698.aspx) seems to have doubts about the whole process.

Here's someone (http://www.mykejb.com/ddaily2.asp#A131) with a similar concern.

Thanks for your input....I will try it out. :)