Thank you for that and all the other responses too!!!! I suppose I'm guilty - I was just doing it because you do and always have. I hadn't really thought of it this way Adam and now I suspect I'll ask the question each time - do I need to validate this address. I suppose some understanding of who is entering the data is a consideration for me too - because when it breaks they call me because it's the app, not them :-)
++++++++++ Kevin Parker ++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Adam Cameron [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013 6:12 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Apostrophes in email addresses > This seems to work, no? No. It doesn't allow for quite a number of completely legit characters, notably the + sign (which is very common), amongst others. That said, this is the fault of the original regex, not your fix for it. My feedback on this got too long for a response here, so I wrote it up on my blog: http://adamcameroncoldfusion.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/email-address-validation -1-in-series.html -- Adam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354677 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
