RE: validating email address "syntax"

Dan,

The only other thing I check for is that the email address doesn't contain the 
following characters:  " ", "/", ";", ",", and ":".

Regards,

Gerry Tucker
Senior Analyst Programmer
Technicolor Distribution Services
Wembley, U.K.

"All my life I wanted to be somebody.
Now I see that I should have been more specific."





>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan [mailto:dbcerpg@yahoo.com]
>Sent: 11 November 2002 15:08
>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?
>
>TIA, Dan
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos
>http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
>_______________________________________________
>This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L)
>mailing list
>To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l
>or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com
>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
>at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
>