Verifying Email address

[foobar2k]

i want to add functionality to my script to check if $input{'email'} is in a valid email format (<A HREF="mailto:name@host.doma">name@host.doma</A>in).<br>Is this possible?<br>thanks<br>foobar2k

 

[Guest_imported]

This may not be a perfect heuristic, but:<br><br>if ($address =~ /^([\w\-_\.]+)@(([\w\-_]+)\.)+([\w]+)$/) <br>{<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;print &quot;This is probably an email address&quot;;<br>}<br>else<br>{<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;print &quot;This is definitely not an email address, loser.&quot;;<br>}<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Tom Anderson<br>CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.<br><A HREF="

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[foobar2k]

thanks, the code seems to work fine<br>also is there any way to also verify that the field $input{'url'} begins with http:// ?<br>thanks <br>foobar2k

 

[Guest_imported]

I suggest you learn how to write your own regular expressions.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can't keep asking people to come up with them for you.&nbsp;&nbsp;How will you know if they are correct or not?&nbsp;&nbsp;There are plenty of sources on the web, just do a search.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Tom Anderson<br>CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.<br><A HREF="

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[foobar2k]

The best way to learn is by example, and correct me if i am wrong but is this a technical help forum?<br>If you dont want to help then dont, but otherwise dont criticise the questions.

 

[Guest_imported]

I didn't mean to criticize but it's not that hard to learn.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think you will find that tutorials are more helpful than just asking someone to do it for you.<br><br>for the http, try this:<br><br>sub check_http<br>{<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;my ($url) = @_;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;if ($url =~ /^http:\/\/(.*)$/) {return 1;} else {return 0;}<br>}<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Tom Anderson<br>CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.<br><A HREF="

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[MikeLacey]

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