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[Dave Hull]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Kain wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:45:46PM -0500, Dave Hull wrote:
> > On 15 Aug 2003, brad wrote:
> > 
> > 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. :) 

Excellent idea.

> 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.

Ah Unicode.

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Dave Hull
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