Re: Email Address Validation

"John Nurick" <j.mapSoN.nurick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:24:00 -0700, "Sam Hobbs"
<samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The
following were among the results when I used Yahoo.

http://aspfaqs.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=47
http://lampwriter.com/email

I tried each of these on two valid email addresses: one of my own, and
one from my addressbook. Nothing fancy, just
xxx@xxxxxxx
where xxx is a a string of characters in the range a-z, yyy is another
such, and tld is a valid top level domain (e.g. "com", "se").

The "lampwriter" page said they were both invalid. The "aspfaqs" code
accepted one but rejected the other.

Ah well, one out of four ain't bad<g>.

--
John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]

Please respond in the newgroup and not by email.


I don't understand. Were they truly valid email addresses? When you say "xxx
is a a string of characters in the range a-z, yyy is another such" you imply
that the characters were relatively random; that the rejected addresses were
not addresses that email would be accepted for.

The aspfaqs.com sample is sample code. It would be interesting to determine
why it rejected one.

The important issue is that there are many samples available for searching.
I did not look as thoroughly as I would if I needed an answer.


.

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