Re: validating email address "syntax"

When I wrote this program, I hadn't yet gone through your tutorial, so I
didn't know how.  In fact, I didn't know that you could (with RPG).  Also,
the machine this program runs on is not connected to the internet in any
way, so I can't do a lookup.  However, that's definitely a better method
that you describe.

Mike E.


Instead of checking for a number of characters after the @, why
not just check if it's a valid IP address, and if not, do a DNS lookup?


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 meovino@estes-express.com wrote:
>
> I mean three characters total including the domain, period and suffix.
So
> an address of a@b.c would pass my test.  yourname@127.0.0.1 should also
> pass my test.  I didn't know that a TLD had to be at least two
characters.
> x.com is registered by PayPal (http://www.samspade.org/t/lookat?a=x.com),
> so I always thought it was just one.
>
> Basically, I just want to check that there's some sort of TLD after the @
> and some sort of suffix after the @ (in addition to something before the
> @).
>