Re: Validate Email address in RPGLE

Hi

I did used

eval At_Sign = u'0040'

in my RPG code and i get @ sign no matter what the CCSID is (did not try
with 65535 as most of our systems are set not to use this)

But i have another issue now, i ask the user to enter the email address in a
screen as input,

But if the CCSID is not 37 then i get different value for @ sign in my RPGLE
program.

For example if i set CCSID as 273 then i get § instead of @ sign, even if
the user enters @ sign

So how do i convert this input value to @ sign for validation and then
inserting in database

Ashish

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

This Bruce V. does NOT agree ;)

The system will take care of the conversion IF the job CCSID is NOT 65535.
But if the job CCSID is 65535 then no conversion will occur.

Using the Unicode to Character approach I proposed in an earlier append
the conversion will take place in either case. If the job CCSID is not
65535 you'll get At_Sign in the job CCSID. If the job CCSID is 65535 you'll
get At_Sign in the job default CCSID. Since the job default CCSID will
always match the job CCSID (except for the 65535 case) this means you'll
always get At_Sign in the "most likely correct" CCSID.

This is not true when using database conversion support.

Bruce Vining
Bruce Vining Services

Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One technique is to put literals like the @ sign into a CCSID-tagged
field in a PF - it can even be tagged with 37. Then when it is brought
into your program, the system takes care of converting to the right thing.

That's what a support guy at IBM said, and Bruce V. seemed to agree.

Vern

Takken, Cor wrote:

You don't want to check an email address only by the presence of the
@-sign. A much better idea is to check it using regular expressions.
This will not remove the limitation of the CCSID, however there must be
a way to represent the string to check in unicode or the likes.

Just my incomplete 2 cents,

Cor

-----Original Message-----
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bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ashish Kulkarni
Sent: vrijdag 17 oktober 2008 13:25
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Validate Email address in RPGLE

HiDoes anyone have sample of validating email address in RPGLE

program,

For example in RPGLE i can write
'@':1 Scan $1SeMail @Pos
If @Pos = 0
//process error here
endif

But this code will only work if CCSID is 37, as @ will be valid only
for
CCSID 37, but what is CCSID is different.
How do i check for the character,
Does anyone have any idea or sample code to do so

Ash
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