yep,
I got one from regexplib.com also.
Don't know how it works but it does!!
Thanks for your help.
Just as a matter of interest what are the restrictions
(if any) on the characters that can be used in an
email address prior to the '@' symbol?
I suspect I will be looking at this RegExp again!!
Cheers,
Cron�n
--- Stephen Caudill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --------------- cronan gogarty wrote:
> ---------------
>
> : uh oh!
> :
> : OK what we have here is a dll that validates an
> email
> : address entered into a webpage.
> : Whoever wrote it decided it would be wise to use a
> : regular expression like so,
> :
> :
>
"^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.[a-z0-9-]+).*$"
> :
> : now I have been requested to allow users to have
> an
> : apostrophe "'" in their email address.
> : I have looked at documentation regarding reqular
> : expressions and I figured that if I used the
> : following;
> :
> :
>
"^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-\']+)[EMAIL PROTECTED](\.[a-z0-9-]+).*$"
> :
> : it should work.
> : It doesnt!
> :
> : Any regular expression gurus out there?
>
> Cronan,
>
> Here's the monstro-destructo regex I use to
> validate email addy's:
>
>
^(([^\[\]()<>@,;:\\".]+|"([^"\\]|\\.)*")*(?<angle><))?((?!\.)(\.?[^\[\]()<>@,;:\\".
>
]+)+|"([^"\\]|\\.)*")@(((?!-)[a-zA-Z\d\-]+(?<!-)\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}|\[(((?(?<!\[)\.)(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?\d?\d)){4}|[a-zA-Z\d\-]*[a-zA-Z\d]:([^\\\[\]]|\\.)+)\])(?(angle)>)$
>
> validates to RFC 2822, which allows apostrophes.
> Please don't ask me
> to explain it :), its from RegExLib[1].
>
> enjoi!
> Stephen
>
>
> [1] http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=711
>
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