regular expressions question

[Robert Dufour]

How do you use regular expression to validate a string to be a validly
constructed email address?

Thanks for any help
Bob

[raibeart]

Re: regular expressions question

Bob,

Try here: http://regexlib.com/default.aspx

Robert

On Jan 31, 3:35 pm, "Robert Dufour" <bduf...@sgiims .comwrote:

How do you use regular expression to validate a string to be a validly
constructed email address?
>
Thanks for any help
Bob

[Brian Gideon]

Re: regular expressions question

On Jan 31, 3:35 pm, "Robert Dufour" <bduf...@sgiims .comwrote:

How do you use regular expression to validate a string to be a validly
constructed email address?
>
Thanks for any help
Bob

Bob,

Here's a good link.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

Notice that the RFC 822 compliant regular expression is *insane*. The
author recommends using a simpler expression.

Brian