# Form Error Checking - Actionscript 2

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/form-error-checking-actionscript-2/229716>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 19, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/form-error-checking-actionscript-2/229716 "2007-06-19T18:26:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasondefra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@jasondefra](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jasondefra)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/form-error-checking-actionscript-2/229716/1 "2007-06-19T18:26:56Z")

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Hi all, I’m in the process of scripting out an error checking function(s) to fish out incorrectly inputed text fields. For example, in a First Name text box, I want to make actionscript shoot the user to frame 2 (the ‘Incorrect Format Please Try Again’ frame) if they insert any numbers or symbols into that particular text box (e.g. Jason1, J4son, ]ason). All of the text boxes in the scene are drag/drop/resizes from the components window (Components/User Interface/TextInput). I feel like I did this for a class a few years ago, but I don’t have many of my old work files and I can’t figure out how to do this (intuition evading me on something as seemingly simple as this is almost embarrassing). Any help or links(to tutorials) would be much appreciated. Thanks guys!

~Jason