Re: Does anyone know of an API to validate an email address? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Does anyone know of an API to validate an email address?
From: Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:58:11 -0600
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And my experience is that it is devilishly difficult to get regex for email validation "just right" for all possible iterations of addresses....

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On 12/4/2020 9:33 AM, David Gibbs via RPG400-L wrote:

On 12/4/20 9:21 AM, Timothy Feldmeier wrote:

I have a screen for the user to enter email addresses. Sometimes they
enter a typo. It would be nice to have an API, instead of writing
code for the validation of an email address.

Are you looking to check the format of the email or the validity of the address?

There's a regex on my blog post about using REGEX in RPG (https://www.geekyramblings.net/2020/05/16/regex-in-rpg/) that is supposed to validate email addresses ... but I've never used it.

There are also web services available that are supposed to validate email addresses.

david

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AW: Does anyone know of an API to validate an email address? , Logic IT: K. Fritz
RE: Does anyone know of an API to validate an email address? , Wyatt, Chris (BWPKG-ROM)

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