email validation

[emirapoport]

Hello, im posting this question because i have zero knowledge on perl. I have a script which curently allows users to input an email address and if the email is not valid it wont allow the submission. Everything works fine except that now there are clients who have a period in their email address and it is rejected. eg. tom.jones@email .com.. im sure its a simple addition to the script not even sure where it might go but here is what i copied and where im assuming it might need to be changed..


Code: ( text )

# Do our error checking
  my $gintErrorCount = 0;
  my $gstrMessage = "";
  
  # Email Address
  unless ($gstrHash{email} =~ m/^(\w+)\@(\w+)\.(\w{2,4})$/)  {$gintErrorCount ++; $gstrMessage .= "Your email address is not properly formatted.<BR>";}
  
  # Fix phone variable - client
  $gstrHash{cphone} =~ s/\D//g;
  unless ($gstrHash{cphone} =~ m/^\d{10}$/) {$gintErrorCount ++; $gstrMessage .= "Your contact phone number must be a ten digit number.<BR>";}
  $gstrHash{cphone} =~ s/^([\d]{3}?)([\d]{3}?)([\d]{4}?)$/\($1\)$2-$3/i;   
 
  # Email Address
  unless ($gstrHash{cemail} =~ m/^(\w+)\@(\w+)\.(\w{2,4})$/)  {$gintErrorCount ++; $gstrMessage .= "Your contact email address is not properly formatted.<BR>";}

i appreciate any help
thanks
EMI

[numberwhun]

In that case, you could modify your regex to be something like:

m/^(\w+\.*\w*)\@(\w+)\.(\w{2,4})$/

Mind you, that is totally untested, but in theory, I believe it should work. Test it to find out. The \.*\w* will only match if they are present.

Regards,

Jeff

[eWish]

I would suggest that you use a trusted and proven module called Email::Valid. Is it perfect? No, however it is going to be better than designing your own. Check out the source code and see the regex the author built.

If you want to do you own you could use something like this.

my $email =~ /^[^@]+@([-\w]+\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/;

I still suggest Email::Valid.

--Kevin

[emirapoport]

thank you guys...i think that did it..just have to try a few tests live and see how it goes.
much appreciated.
Cheers
Emi

[eWish]

What did you end up using?

--Kevin