validate a textarea using regex

[Dave Bosky]

I'm trying to validate the contents of a textarea using the following regex. I've had no trouble validating text fields using this regex but the textarea check always fails.
var chkPasswordQA = /^[A-Za-z]$/;
if (form.forgottenPasswordQuestion.value.search(chkPasswordQA) == -1) {
errmsg = errmsg+"\n"+(arrErrField.length+1)+". error ";
form action="go.jsp" method="post" name="form" onSubmit="return validate(this);"
textarea rows="3" cols="50" name="forgottenPasswordQuestion"></textarea>
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[Eric Pascarello]

try using match instead and I changed the regular expression slightly
var StrRE = /[^A-Za-z]/;
if(StrT.match(StrRE))alert('Error')
Eric
[ March 04, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]