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  3. February 2007

Re: Validating The Form of an Email Address

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:35:01 -0600
"Bruce Collins" <bruce.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Has any of youz guyz written some code I can use in an RPGLE program
to validate the construct of an email address?


Due to the very permissive description of email addresses, it is
extremely difficult to *strictly* validate the form of one.

That said, here is a plausible regular expression we use to validate
email addresses in one of our Java programs:

"^([^@\\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\\.)+[a-z]{2,})$"

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