oh gosh lol.. duh!
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Peter J. Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Find() returns the position of the "found" character.
>
> <cfoutput>#find("@", "[email protected]")#</cfoutput>
>
> Returns 6.
>
> So your logic needs to be:
>
> <CFIF find("@","#form.recipient_user_name#") NEQ 0 AND
> find(".","#form.recipient_user_name#") NEQ 0>
>
>
> Zero means no match was made -- so you need to look for conditions --
> either NEQ 0 or GTE 1.
>
> HTH,
> .Peter
>
> Jason Allen said the following on 09/03/2010 02:02 PM:
> > HI Guys,
> >
> > I have a small piece of code that needs to check if a variable
> > contains an email address.
> >
> > I want to check to make sure the string contains @ and .
> >
> > I've been trying a bunch of different ways since I realized what I
> > originally had wasn't working. I never had problems with this, but I'm
> > revisiting a script that uses 'find' and now i'm not getting results.
> >
> > I've tried
> >
> > <CFIF find("@,.","#form.recipient_user_name#") EQ 1 >
> >
> > <CFIF find("@,.",form.recipient_user_name) EQ 1 >
> >
> > <CFIF find("@","#form.recipient_user_name#") EQ 1 AND
> > find(".","#form.recipient_user_name#") EQ 1>
> >
> > <CFIF find("@",form.recipient_user_name) EQ 1 AND
> > find(".",form.recipient_user_name) EQ 1>
> >
> > And the variable form.recipient_user_name does contain an email
> > address (with my tests) and it still won't come back positive.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Could this be related to OpenBD because I swear
> > this worked before.
> >
> >
>
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