Re: Re: Re: Re: Perl Question

["Casey Boone" <bn21stu@semovm.semo.edu>]

hrm, well if i knew regex better...

you might try asking in a perl channel on an irc network, if anyone should
know regex its them

> 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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