RegEx in jQuery Validator addMethod

I need a few RegEx for my jQuery validator custom methods. The first which I thought was going to be easy was just limiting a username to only US letters, numbers, and no special characters. I came up with ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$ but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it is due to the way it appears in the function:

$.validator.addMethod(
    "legalName",
    function(value, element) {
        return (element.value != "^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$");
    },
    "Use a valid username."
);

The second is validating the password which is essentially the same limitations with the add开发者_运维问答ition of a required number of certain characters such as an uppercase, number, ect. I figure once I get the username RegEx down the password wont be too hard, just a matter of fitting in {1}'s and such within the expression.

The last part of my question is how do I add a second method ("legalPassword") inside of the original .addMethod or do I need a create a whole other $.validator.addMethod?

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#form1").validate({
        rules: {
            username: {
                legalName: true,
                required: true,
                maxlength: 35
            }
        },
    });
});

and the table code:

<form id="form1" method="post" action="">
  <div class="form-row"><span class="label">Username *</span><input type="text" name="username" /></div>
  <div class="form-row"><input class="submit" type="submit" value="Submit"></div>
</form>

New code (still not working):

$.validator.addMethod(
    "legalName",
    function(value, element) {
        /^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/.test( value );
    },
    "Use a valid username."
);

return this.optional(element) || /^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/.test( value );

Try using the Regex.test function instead to do the check against your string.

/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/.test( element.value );

See here for more info: http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/redev3.shtml

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