Re: Email Valadation

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 02:42, Philip J. Newman wrote: > How would i valadate an email string to see if it has invalid charactors? > > / Philip Read RFC 822 and grok it thoroughly. Then decide exactly how lax you can afford to be in your checking, or find a checker to download-- because unless you crave the challenge it's probably easier to either do a really simple check, or just download a checker. It's a much harder question than it sounds like. For a couple of perl examples of how it can be done, check here: http://examples.oreilly.com/regex/readme.html I would suggest checking on ps.sklar.com, Zend.com, phpclasses.org, etc for some rfc822 checkers. -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> +1.604.709.0506 http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.inflatableeye.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.themainonmain.com -----==== Boycott Starbucks! http://www.haidabuckscafe.com ====-----