RE: validating email address "syntax" -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: validating email address "syntax"
From: Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:06:16 -0700
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I do know that an e-mail address may have multiple '.' characters.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan [mailto:dbcerpg@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 8:08 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: validating email address "syntax"
>
>
> I have a new application in which the user types in an email address.
>
> Besides checking for a single '@', a single '.', and no blanks, are
> there any other things that I should be checking for when
> validating an
> email address for correct syntax?

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