Hello again! For forms, is there a way for "V...

Hello again! For forms, is there a way for โ€œVALID_IFโ€ to trigger FALSE if the user submits an answer that is not Roman alphabet only? For example,

JOHN DoE = TRUE JOHN DOE = TRUE Jo1n Doe = FALSE 133 = FALSE John D!E = FALSE

Attempted to search for a solution in previous posts.

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Hi @Ricardo_Gonzalez. Here are the available Text Expressions. Unfortunately, none of them can do this directly.

The SUBSTITUTE() expression could be used to remove individual characters though. So you could individually remove A-Z and Spaces, then use LEN() to see if any characters remain. It wonโ€™t be pretty, but itโ€™ll do the trick.

SUBSTITUTE() is case sensitive, so youโ€™ll have 53 nested expressions (A-Z, + a-z, + space). Then wrap that in LEN()

and it should = 0 for valid entries. Should look something like this:

Valid_If: LEN(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTEโ€ฆ ([Name], โ€œAโ€, โ€œโ€), โ€œBโ€, โ€œโ€), โ€œCโ€, โ€œโ€)โ€ฆ

)=0

You might also want to allow โ€œ-โ€ for hyphenated names.

Text Expressions help.appsheet.com

Nope.

You could use a formula in the spreadsheet itself to validate after the save.

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