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A few times at work recently we have had the need to validate a form input field as an integer while still accepting an empty sting as a valid value as well.

This can be done as follows:

var RE = /^\d*$/;
document.write(RE.test(2)); //true
document.write(RE.test('')); //true
document.write(RE.test('a')); //false

The regular expression in the preceding example specifies that the string being tested must have zero or more digit characters. Anything else is invalid.

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