Re: Re: Re: Perl Question

["Matthew Walker" <mwalker@silug.org>]

no... not good enough... want to ONLY allow valid characters that would be
in an email address.  a verification email will take care of whether it is
truly valid.

if I strip the () characters, I still have to worry about all the other bad
possibliities

----- Original Message -----
From: "Casey Boone" <bn21stu@semovm.semo.edu>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Perl Question


> what about stripping out the () characters and comparing length?  its not
a
> regex solution, but i dont know regex ;}
>
>
> > that's fine, but allowing () in the address breaks a script that is
> > running...  I know that isn't good, but trying to stop the bad input at
> the
> > first place possible.  if it is an invalid email address, the user won't
> get
> > the info they asked for
>
>
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