Check Characters In Text

Jun 7, 2006

I have a textbox in a form and i need to check if the text posted there begins with zero or if it contains spaces. Ex:

05E 9050 01
if this is the text then it shoud warn me becouse there is a zero in the begining and it contain spaces
4P 565001
if this is the text then it shoud warn me becouse there is a space

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