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On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:45:46PM -0500, Dave Hull wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2003, brad wrote:
> 
> > > 2) parse the data out stripping all character except the ones you
> > > want to allow.
> 
> This approach is widely considered the "best practice." For email addresses 
> you're probably looking at the following set of characters [0-9A-z_.@] of 
> course, there could be others.

There have been regular expressions implemented that you can test an email
address against to see if it is valid.  Please google for one of these (e-mail
regex) and use that instead of re-inventing the wheel. :)  That way you'll also
be able to handle much of the strange stuff like people with french addresses
using the accented characters in their addresses.
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