rfc 2822 contains the entire syntax of what's alowed and whats not (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) allowed in an email.
Overkill, but interesting. And there's a perl module (Email:Address) to do 2822 validating as well, if you need be able to validate any possible allowed email. However, mostly what the others have said on this will probably suffice. John On Tue, 3 May 2005, Claus Derlien wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm completely new to the use of pattern matching in UniVerse, > and i need a neat way to validate an email adress, so i can return an error > if it contains any illegal chars, i guess legal chars is a-z,A-Z,0-9,.-_@ > > does anyone have nice way to do this ?? > > best regards from sunny denmark > > Claus Derlien > edb-afdelingen > direkte : 63 13 86 69 > email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Frie Funktionfrer - faglig organisation og tvfrfaglig a-kasse - www.f-f.dk > > *************************************************************************************************************************************** > Denne email og alle filer vedlagt som bilag kan indeholde fortroligt > materiale, der kun er beregnet for adressaten, > og maa ikke udleveres eller kopieres til uvedkommende. Har De ved en > fejltagelse modtaget denne email, bedes > De venligst omgaaende meddele os dette pr. telefon : 6313 8550. Paa forhaand > tak. > *************************************************************************************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential > information intended for the addressee(s) only. > The information is not to be surrendered or copied to unauthorised persons. > If you have received this > communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone: +45 6313 > 8550. Thank you. > *************************************************************************************************************************************** > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
