email edit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:06:52AM -0500, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> One I have used is the following:
> 
> email: [{!" "!}] { {A} | {N} | clean }
> clean: {!">"! | !","! | !"$"! | !"%"! | !"<"! | !"?"! | !"#"! | * }

"%" is still valid on the LHS of an email address.  It's not too
*common* anymore... but it's still in use.

As is "+".

> 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.

No, but it is useful to validate the RHS for "At least one dot", though
it might not be all that easy...

Cheers,
-- jra
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