@keored,
What I would do for client side validation is use .Net 2.0 to do the client code easily, then just copy client script snippets to the older ASP project, but any other googled snippets would work just as well.
Server side validation is important for preventing SQL Injection Attacks (<--important: check this out if you don't know). .Net 2.0&1.0 has Regex for this purpose. If you were using SQL Server then you could use @parameters too.
Since you are using ASP, then if you need to stop hackers, you have to code a server validation with one of : a bit of work, VB regex, or googling. Work it out by checking every letter in the string with your own code, but a common reg ex might be better and faster after time. The cool thing about reg ex is that it is basically the same wherever you go. Plus there is alot of reg ex samples. Dont net 2.0 has a reg ex dropdownbox for common regexs which you can then copy and modify to the other project in ASP VB.
As suggested google it look at VBScritp
RegExp.Pattern
which runs a the default language for ASP
Let's act on what we agree on now, and argue later on what we don't.
Black men leave Barbeque alone if Barbeque don't trouble you