Re: validating email address "syntax"

[meovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

You can definitely have more than one '.'.  Isn't it legal to use the URL
encoding characters also?

I make sure there's a '@', at least one '.' after the '@', at least one
character before the '@', at least three characters after the '@', at least
one character between the '@' and the last '.' and at least one character
after the last '.'.

Mike E.





                    Dan
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                    11/11/02 10:07 AM
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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

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