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Re: Perl Question



yes, but i need to prevent an email address like

fooeyonu(iwannamessuup@someplace.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tighe" <emry@accessus.net>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Perl Question


> Forgive mine drunken rambling, but could you not append the line to check
> for something akin to a .foo in a@b.foo by doing this?
>
> /.+\@.+\..+/
>
> Sorry if it doesn't work, our party here is getting out of hand.  I am
> already wearing the sombrero of tequila immunity.  :)
>
> TIghe
>
> >I have a perl script with a line
> >
> >  &sorry('be') unless ($form{'EMAIL'} =~ /.+\@.+/);
> >
> >I know that this appears to be unsafe... as a matter of fact, something
like
> >mad((@foo.bar is a valid address as well as a@b
> >
> >I've tried coming up with a line to check for sane email addresses but it
> >doesn't appear to do anything different than the above. Have any input on
> >what might be wrong with the one below, or how to fix the one above?
Trying
> >to limit to alphanumeric (including _ ) as well as . and -
> >
> >
> >(everything below is one line please disregard any breaks)
> >
> >&sorry('be') unless ($form{'EMAIL'} =~ /[\w\.-]+\@[\w\.-]+\.[\w\.-]+/);
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