Stringregexp

[jvanegmond 297]

I'm trying to check if string is a email adres so i use: [a-z]@[a-z.a-z][a-z.a-z.a-z]

That makes sence to me because then it'll also be capable of doing bla@bla.co.uk and bla@bla.com

but .. [a-z]@[a-z.a-z] also accepts the same 2 values. Why? and shouldn't i also use the @ in between tags?

Here's my quick test code, pretty handy.

Local $sPattern = "[a-z]@[a-z.a-z][a-z.a-z.a-z]", $sTest = "email@adres.com", $vResult, $nFlag

While 1
$sPattern = InputBox("StringRegExp Sample", "What is the PATTERN to test?", $sPattern)
$sTest = InputBox("StringRegExp Sample", "What is the LINE to test?", $sTest)
$vResult = StringRegExp($sTest, $sPattern)
Select
Case @Error = 2 
; Error.  The pattern was invalid.  $vResult = position in $sPattern where error occurred.
    Msgbox(0, "" , "Error invalid pattern")
Case @Error = 0
   if @Extended  Then
     ; Success.  Pattern matched.  $vResult matches @Extended
      Msgbox(0, "" , "Match")
   Else
     ; Failure.  Pattern not matched.  $vResult = ""
      Msgbox(0, "" , "No Match")
   EndIf
EndSelect
WEnd

[Simucal 1]

Try using something like:

[a-zA-Z0-9_\\.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}

You werent using an quantifiers after your classes. Like +, *, etc.

Also, your regexp would only allow lowercase, letter only emails. This will take numbers, dashes, underscores, upper/lowercase, and addresses like bla@bla.co.uk

I havent tested it thorougly so it might take some tweaking.

[jvanegmond 297]

[a-zA-Z0-9_\\.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(\.+[a-zA-Z0-9]){,1}

Would this mean only email adresses ending with a .com or .co.uk come through but Not "" (empty) or .co.uk.co ?

Edited May 14, 2006 by Manadar

[SmOke_N 199]

I don't know how much I trust this to actually prove it's a valid email address (StringRegExp that is), without actually using "All (Oh my ) proper email extensions", but you could try this, I couldn't get Simucals to work right for some reason:

$email = 'abdc@myemail.co.uk'
$Check = StringRegExp($email, '^[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*(\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})', 3)
If @extended Then 
    MsgBox(0, 'Info:', 'Is a valid email')
Else
    MsgBox(64, 'Info:', 'Is not a valied email')
EndIf

Edit:

Doesn't solve your ".co.uk.co" issue.

Edited May 14, 2006 by SmOke_N

[Simucal 1]

I couldn't get Simucals to work

Weird. This didnt work for you?

$email = 'simucal@gmail.com'
$Check = StringRegExp($email, '^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}', 0)
If @extended Then
    MsgBox(0, 'Info:', 'Is a valid email')
Else
    MsgBox(64, 'Info:', 'Is not a valied email')
EndIf

I tried a few email addresses and it seems to work fine.

EDIT: Hey smoke, you used the "^" character in your regexp at the begining.. I assume that is to indicate match at the begining of the string. Has that feature been implemented yet?

Edited May 14, 2006 by Simucal

[SmOke_N 199]

Weird. This didnt work for you?

$email = 'simucal@gmail.com'
$Check = StringRegExp($email, '^[a-zA-Z0-9_\\.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4}', 0)
If @extended Then
    MsgBox(0, 'Info:', 'Is a valid email')
Else
    MsgBox(64, 'Info:', 'Is not a valied email')
EndIf

I tried a few email addresses and it seems to work fine.

EDIT: Hey smoke, you used the "^" character in your regexp at the begining.. I assume that is to indicate match at the begining of the string. Has that feature been implemented yet?

I've used it a few times in the past, I don't know to be honest.

[neogia 0]

Well, this script takes about ~.5sec for a valid email and ~1sec for an invalid(timeout) email. It actually does a DNS lookup on the domain. It's not 100% because there's no feasible way to check the username with the domain name, so someone could supply jowerhaoiuoiugoijweoir@gmail.com, and it would be valid(I checked, it's not ) However, they can't send i'm^an@$$@hotmail.com, that will most definitely fail. So I'd say this method is about 85% accurate.

$email = InputBox("Input", "Email Address:")
$Check = StringRegExp($email, '[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(?:\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@([A-Za-z0-9-]+(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*(?:\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}))', 1)
If @extended Then 
    $domain = $check[0]
Else
    MsgBox(0, 'Info:', $email & ': is not valid')
    Exit
EndIf
$pid = Run("nslookup -type=MX " & $domain,"","",7)
While ProcessExists($pid)
    Sleep(100)
WEnd
$bFound = 0
If StdoutRead($pid,0,true) > 0 Then
    $msg = StringSplit(StdoutRead($pid), @CRLF)
    For $line in $msg
        If StringInStr($line, $domain) == 1 Then
            $bFound = 1
        EndIf
    Next
EndIf
If $bFound == 1 Then
    MsgBox(0, 'Info:', $email & ': is a valid email')
Else
    MsgBox(64, 'Info:', $email & ': is not a valid email')
EndIf

P.S. Oh, and there's no ~1sec delay if the email is formatted incorrectly, that's instantaneous; at least to us humans.