email edit

[Nancy Palmquist]

Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Surely someone has concocted an email edit?
> 
JP,

One I have used is the following:

email: [{!" "!}] { {A} | {N} | clean }
clean: {!">"! | !","! | !"$"! | !"%"! | !"<"! | !"?"! | !"#"! | * }

That eliminated most of the garbage, but I recently ran across a company 
that allowed their email addresses to contain apostrophes, a real bad 
character in my view.  Hard to edit for in filePro.

But maybe this would be better:

some: {{A} | {N} | clean}
email: [{!" "!}] some "@" some "." some

Just include in the CLEAN edit all the characters that are never allowed 
in any part of an email address.  You are not able to check for 
apostrophes or quotes, but all others will work.

Domains are hard to restrict, they keep adding new ones so I try not to 
worry about it.

Hope this helps.
Nancy


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